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The CWA Minority Leadership Institute (MLI) will celebrate its 25th year when the institute's annual program opens this September 14-26 at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md. Following two weeks of classroom training, participants in the program will take part in a week-long internship in politics or organizing in their home district or sector.

CWA Local 6171 in Krum, Texas, used mobilization to achieve major contract protections for workers at Century Tel and also won a substantial settlement recently for workers who previously had been laid off by Windstream.

Responding to the retaliatory firings last week of 29 northern California newspaper workers who had just formed a new bargaining unit, The Newspaper Guild-CWA this week filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board.

More than 1,000 CWA military veterans responded to an online survey as part of the AFL-CIO's efforts to fight for the health and education benefits of veterans.

Through lax enforcement and the mishandling of cases, the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division is allowing employers to get away with wage theft, according to a report released this week by the General Accountability Office.