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A CWA study, considered the most comprehensive scientific investigation ever into health problems associated with VDT (video display terminal) use among public workers, found a high injury rate among the 500-plus participants.

Employers may not impose a so-called merit pay plan on employees after bargaining has come to an impasse, the U.S. Supreme Court held in refusing to review a lower court ruling involving two California newspapers.

Workplace activity by hundreds of CWA supporters in the Connecticut Union of Telephone Workers has produced one of the largest private sector affiliation vote victories anywhere in the country this year.

It took a monumental grassroots mobilization backed up by a paid media campaign, but in the end it was the plain truth that torpedoed Prop 226 in California.

The Suburban Writers and Photographers of the Philadelphia Inquirer, a unit of TNG-CWA Local 10, has ratified its first contract, four years in the making, by an overwhelming vote of 78-12.