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CWA District 1 Occupational Safety and Health Conference Call conducted Monday, February 22, 2010 from 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.

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.