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IUE-CWA Local 81455 members at Trane in Trenton, N.J., have overwhelmingly ratified a new contract that caps workers' share of health care costs. The four-year agreement covers nearly 900 workers who make residential central air conditioning units.

CWA's next "virtual union meeting," a national town hall by phone and Internet for stewards and all interested members, is scheduled for Thursday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

CWA state workers in New Jersey are the latest targets of legislative attacks on workers, as state Senate President Steve Sweeney attempts to strip away their right to bargain over health care.

Are your local TV stations laying off workers and filling newscasts with canned stories from a central location, perhaps many states away? If so, are they violating the terms of their public licenses?

Score another victory for New York's Albany Newspaper Guild: A unanimous National Labor Relations Board says the Times Union newspaper illegally laid off 11 workers in 2009 and broke the law again by declaring impasse in negotiations with the union.