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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.

The kickoff for District 3 Mobility Bargaining is Monday, March 29, 2010. This bargaining will cover 12,000 plus employees in District 3's nine state area. For updates, visit http://district3.cwa-union.org/barg-mobe/mobility-bargaining.html.

Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Dr. David Michaels today testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee's Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.