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AT&T announced this week that it will be bringing back from overseas nearly 650 Tier I DSL technical support jobs and locating them in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, later this year. The jobs are coming back to the United States as part of the agreement CWA reached with AT&T last fall to return the tech support work that had been contracted overseas.

Retired CWA Representative Crystal Roberts, well respected for political mobilization work in Ohio, died on June 15 at age 54.

WashTech-CWA representatives testified before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee last week to urge lawmakers to extend and expand the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act to include tech workers.

Those who argue that workers in unions are less productive than other workers are flat-out wrong according to studies in both the United States and Europe, where up to 90 percent of workers in some countries are covered by a union contract.

Meetings of the Joint Retiree Healthcare Committee to negotiate possible changes to the Retiree healthcare plan design and/or healthcare premiums, were initiated in March 2007 and were to conclude no later than June 15, 2007.