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All CWA represented Bell Atlantic/NYNEX employees who believe they were wrongfully denied FMLA leave from November 14, 1994 through October 1, 1998 or who were not informed about the option of FMLA leave and who wish to take part in the SPECIAL REVIEW PROCESS negotiated by CWA and the Company must f

More than 10,000 CWA members voluntarily participated in the union’s 1998 survey of repetitive motion health problems associated with computers — and the results are not good.

CWA local leaders recently learned that “catastrophic” rates of injury are striking union members whose work lives are tied to computers, and got tips from a rank-and-file panel on ways that the toll can be reduced.

CWA members mobilized in support of candidates and turned out large numbers at the polls Nov. 3, as union voters installed new friends of working families in the House, preserved a balance of power in the Senate and elected several pro-worker governors.

CWA Local 1120, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., recently reported two organizing victories, both won on second attempts after losing elections earlier this year.