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CWA and CWA/NETT have been awarded a $4 million training grant to help dislocated workers train for clean, green energy and manufacturing jobs. Less than 15 percent of grant proposals submitted were selected to receive a grant; CWA was awarded one of just 25 grants total. The grants are funded by the Obama administration's economic stimulus program.

As 2009 came to a close, more than 150 workers joined CWA through organizing campaigns in Districts 1, 2 and 7. In New York, a majority of the professionals at Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital and Sterling Medical gained representation with CWA Local 1168 after a majority signed union authorization cards. The workers will be covered under CWA's master agreement at Kaleida Health.

Across our union, CWAers can make a difference and help save jobs at New Era Cap Company. The challenge: Stop the shutdown of one of two remaining New Era facilities in Demopolis, Ala., and Derby, N.Y. CWA represents workers at both locations; New Era now is shutting its Jackson, Ala., plant.

Leading economists and 190 Members of Congress agree: the proposed tax on health care benefits is bad public policy that will hurt millions of middle-income and working Americans. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Representative Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) and economists Lawrence Mishel and Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute debunked the myths that supporters have been spreading about the excise tax during a media teleconference Jan. 6.

CWA joined members of Congress and other allies today in a media teleconference to outline concerns about the proposed Verizon-Frontier merger and discuss ways to eliminate a tax loophole that allows Verizon and other companies to sell assets tax-free to smaller companies that end up burdened by debt.