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Just two weeks after more than a 1,000 of their co-workers organized in Florida, a unit of 344 of AT&T Mobility's retail sales workers in North Carolina gained recognition this week when the American Arbitration Association certified that a majority of the workers supported union representation through CWA's card check and neutrality agreement with the company.

In yet another attack on workers' organizing rights, the Republican majority members on the National Labor Relations Board ruled that decertification petitions, or an election petition from a rival union, can be filed within a 45-day period of the time an employer grants union recognition to employees based on majority card check.

A one-stop shopping center for CWA newsletter editors, webmasters, local leaders and organizers and anyone who needs a hand communicating with members or the public is now available at a new website, The Source, online at www.cwa-union.org/source.

"For Pete's Sake." That's the slogan District 2 locals have adopted in organizing fundraising walks to help in the fight against ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. The slogan refers to Pete Catucci, CWA vice president of District 2, who is himself fighting ALS and who gave an appeal on behalf of stem cell research at the CWA convention.

CWA's settlement last month with Verizon to train all Maryland technicians about electrical safety and health issues has been expanded to cover technicians throughout District 2.