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Minutes of the CWA District 3 Occupational Safety and Health Conference Call conducted on Friday, August 13, 2010.

A powerful new report by the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, "Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence," gives voice to workers who testified about health and safety violations, immigrant worker exploitation, wage theft, employer intimidation, union suppression and other issues at the first National Asian Pacific American Workers' Rights Hearing. APALA, the AFL-CIO and more than 20 national and local organizations held the hearing to provide a national platform for Asian Americans and Pacific Islander workers to speak about challenges they face in the workplace.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded a five-year grant to CWA's Occupational Safety and Health Department and the United Steelworkers' Tony Mazzocchi Center for health, safety, and environment education. Together, CWA and the Steelworkers will develop worker-to-worker training on a variety of safety and health issues on the job. CWA's share of the grant, which runs through July 2015, is $2.5 million.

Minutes of the CWA District 4 Occupational Safety and Health Conference Call conducted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010.

CWA's Occupational Safety and Health Department and the United Steelworkers (USW) Tony Mazzocchi Center (TMC), its health, safety and environment education and training division, were recently awarded a five-year grant award from the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The grant, to be initiated August 1, 2010 and run through July 31, 2015, will allow CWA and USW/TMC to join together in developing and conducting safety and health training for CWA and USW members.