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In an era of shrinking newsrooms, TNG-CWA members in northern California have started a national online forum to trade and inspire new ideas for the future of journalism.

The labor movement is rallying to support the people of Haiti whose lives, homes and communities have been devastated by a massive earthquake this week.

Laid-off workers will be able to keep their group health insurance from former employers at a subsidized rate under a new law signed by President Obama. Last year, the Obama administration's job stimulus program included a COBRA subsidy of 65 percent of the health care premium costs for laid-off workers for up to nine months. That program was set to expire Dec. 31, but has been extended and improved.

Members of Local 2222 braved cold weather this week for an early morning protest against Verizon's plan to cut 1,000 jobs in Maryland, Virginia and D.C.