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Seeking strong representation, 90 employees at Hamilton (County) Hospital in Webster City, Iowa have voted to join CWA. The nurses, therapists, technicians and other direct patient care workers were formerly affiliated with the Iowa Nurses Association but said they'd received little support from INA, especially at the bargaining table.

Members of TNG-CWA Local 36047 in St. Louis spent last Saturday working on a Habitat for Humanity house that will soon be a real home for a single mother and her six year old daughter.

Today's the day that important health care reform changes begin to be put in place, under the legislation signed by President Obama six months ago.

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson (R) tried to get the Senate to overturn the election rules that the National Mediation Board put in place June 1, establishing democratic procedures for union elections in the airline industry. Fortunately, a majority of Senators didn't agree.

Nine days to go! CWA is counting down to the Oct. 2 One Nation Working Together rally in Washington, where thousands of CWAers will gather at the Lincoln Memorial with hundreds of thousands of others to call for good jobs, bargaining rights, government that works and other issues critical to working families.