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Union activists will rally at the AFL-CIO on Feb. 23 to support bargaining rights for the 40,000 Transportation Security Officers who work at the nation's airports. Union members across DC and staff from every union, including the National Education Association, Change to Win unions and AFL-CIO unions, will join the rally beginning at 11:30.

Seeking a voice on the job and an end to unfair work policies, 170 medical technicians at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, voted to join CWA last week. The workers, members of CWA Local 9413, voted for a union voice by a 57 to 43 percent margin.

TNG-CWA Local 31003 filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board over Thomson Reuters Corp.'s illegal and unilateral pay cuts that drastically cut the compensation of journalists, technicians and other employees by 10 percent.

More than 20,000 members of ver.di at T-Systems in Germany, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, are mobilizing for job actions following management's failure to resolve workers' bargaining issues after three rounds of negotiations. In the last few days, about 2,000 workers have participated in partial strikes at different locations.

CWA's Customer Service Advocate Committee is up and running, with members representing customer service work across CWA sectors - wireless and wireline telecommunications, public sector, airlines and the newspaper industry.