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Empire State College of the State University of New York is now accepting applications for the Morton Bahr Distance Learning Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. Two new scholarships will be awarded this year.

The efforts of United Campus Workers-CWA Local 3865 have brought about 100 employees of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture time-and-a-half pay if they work more than 40 hours a week. Classified as "agricultural production workers" under the Fair Labor Standards Act, they previously received overtime pay only if they worked more than 120 hours in a pay period.

Backed by a solid majority of workers who want a voice and bargaining rights, Delta Air Lines flight attendants filed for AFA-CWA representation with the National Mediation Board on Feb. 14. The campaign began in late 2006, with a small, dedicated group of flight attendants who started collecting signatures to petition for a union representation election.

CWA President Larry Cohen and other members of a labor fact-finding delegation visiting Colombia this week deplored workers' rights abuses and continuing violence against unionists in the country in speaking to reporters in Bogota on Wednesday.

An army of CWA health care activists is about to fan out across the country to build an even bigger movement of union members, local executive boards and congressional candidates in at least 121 targeted districts who will fight for guaranteed, affordable health care for all.