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The Republican-majority House of Representatives Wednesday voted against consideration of HR 3596, the U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act.

T-Mobile USA will shut down seven call centers on Friday, June 22 affecting 3,300 workers and their communities. The call centers are Allentown, Pa.; Thornton, Colo.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Frisco and Brownsville, Tex.; Lenexa, Kan.; and Redmond, Ore.

With offshoring becoming a bigger issue than ever at newspapers, the Dayton Newspaper Guild-CWA took advantage of Flag Day last week to send a strong message to the company and remind workers what?s at stake.

"As I walked into the Whitman-Walker Clinic I thought, What will everyone in the waiting room think when I tell the receptionist why I'm here? Will they think I'm gay? Will they think I cheated on my wife? I wonder if any of them know I'm a pastor?"

The Washington Post reports that the HIV infection rate for heterosexual African American women in the District's poorest neighborhoods nearly doubled in two years, from 6.3 percent to 12.1 percent.