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More than 1,200 CWA and USW safety and health activists participated in the first USW/CWA National Health, Safety and Environment Conference conducted March 5-9, 2012 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Highlighting the conference activities was a panel presentation involving CWA President Larry Cohen and USW President Leo Gerard.

AT&T Premise Technician Andrel Reid has been on the job for just six months, but he will always remember his Feb. 1 visit to the Lansing, Mich., home of customer Christine Duffy. The Local 4034 member was dispatched to fix Duffy's U-verse service, but he ended up saving the life of Duffy's four-month old baby girl.

NYCOSH Newsline: February 10, 2012

NYCOSH Newsline: January 27, 2012

This precedent-setting ruling supports CWA?s position that Verizon?s Safety Policy/Accident Plan is arbitrary and capricious- intended to be used as a method to control and intimidate Company employees. If CWA leaders and members should witness or know of Company behavior identified in this case, they should notify their Local Union president, and/or CWA Staff as well as the Union?s Occupational Safety and Health Department.