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Under the leadership of District 3 Vice President Noah Savant and with assistance of Booker Lester, Administrative Director to the Vice President, the CWA Occupational Safety and Health Department conducted the CWA District 3 Occupational Safety and Health Retreat, May 17, 2008. Forty-six (46) local union safety and health activists representing 22 local unions participated in the Retreat held at the Jacksonville Crowne Plaza Riverfront in Jacksonville, Florida. Also, immediately preceding the Retreat, on May 15-16 the Department and the Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama conducted a training session.

CWA and IBEW Verizon "South" negotiators met at CWA headquarters this week to review issues in early contract talks.

A bill that promotes global trade as long as agreements are fairly negotiated and include effective labor, environmental and product safety standards is being introduced by Democrats on Capitol Hill with the support of CWA and other labor unions.

Blaming weak sales of sport utility vehicles, General Motors this week announced plans to close the IUE-CWA-represented plant in Moraine, Ohio, along with three other plant shutdowns, prompting the union to declare that the workers and the community are victims of GM's "failure in reading the U.S. automotive market and securing future product for our facility."

Harry Swaim, 74, retired District 3 staff representative, died May 26, at the Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfeesboro, Tenn.