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As the Denver-based MediaNews company moves to consolidate newsroom operations for papers it owns in the San Francisco area, members of TNG-CWA will be working alongside non-union members.

In arbitration hearings this week and last, eight technicians from Verizon's Maintenance Control Office in Long Beach, Calif., have stepped forward to testify that the company used coercive tactics to intimidate union supporters in a representation election the workers narrowly lost in April.

With less than a week before bargaining resumes with Disney-ABC, members of NABET-CWA and scores of backers from other unions rallied at lunchtime in Chicago on Wednesday and New York City on Thursday.

Firefighters and other emergency workers who spent weeks in the toxic disaster that was Ground Zero were stunned and outraged last week to hear Rudy Giuliani compare his job and its risks to theirs.

The Alliance for Public Technology, which is working with CWA to promote affordable high-speed Internet access to all Americans, is urging union members to participate in a contest to promote the importance of broadband communications.