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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.

AFA-CWA has produced a great new organizing video, "The New Delta Family."

More than 175 workers joined CWA last week, from telecom workers at AT&T Mobility in Puerto Rico to public workers in the Borough of Island Heights in Ocean County, N.J.

Members of the Newspaper Guild of New York/CWA Local 31003 at Thomson Reuters have some powerful allies in their fight for a fair contract. Local members who have been mobilizing for a fair contract covering 400 workers at Thomson Reuters have won support from members of the New York City Council and Borough Presidents, as well as leaders of the city's union movement.

Two standout photographers, Dawn Sickles of Local 1101 and Frank Heacock of Local 13500, were named top winners in the first annual CWA Photography Contest.