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We have just learned that Arthur Harris passed away on February 17, 2010. Art was a valued member of the Communications and Technologies office.

It took two years of tough bargaining, but University Professional and Technical Employees/CWA Local 9119 won a tentative agreement last week covering 9,000 researchers and technicians at the University of California.

CWA President Larry Cohen told the House Judiciary Committee that the proposed Comcast/NBC merger should be assessed in terms of jobs, the impact on competition, and the likely negative effect on the emerging Internet video marketplace.

Hundreds of university employees, members of United Campus Workers-CWA Local 3865, rallied at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville to fight against the proposed budget that would cut jobs and wages for hundreds of support staff and nontenured faculty members and harm quality education.

CWAers rallied with hundreds of union activists this week to support full collective bargaining rights for the nation's 40,000 airport security officers.