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CWAers are on the phone to their members of Congress, urging them to sign on to Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard's letter that calls on President Obama to make recess appointments of Craig Becker and Mark Pearce to the National Labor Relations Board.

Thanks to CWA's successful Verizon Strategic Industry Fund campaign, the House of Representatives voted to close the Reverse Morris Trust tax loophole that has allowed Verizon and other companies to spin off parts of their operations tax-free.

By an overwhelming margin, CWA members at Verizon West voted last week to authorize a strike if a fair contract cannot be reached during negotiations. Bargaining is continuing; the contract expired March 13.

Cornell University will begin a comprehensive four-part online "webinar" on March 31 to train union stewards, officers and staff on how to investigate and handle private and public sector grievances.

In the first round of bargaining with Dow Jones since it was acquired by the notoriously anti-union Rupert Murdoch, the Independent Association of Publishing Employees Local 1096, an affiliate of TNG-CWA, "beat back each and every one" of the company's assaults on core contract provisions and won some improvements.