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Red Cross workers represented by CWA Local 13000 made a public statement about demands for health care concessions and management's refusal to bargain fairly in a three-day strike this week.

A 320-mile march from Buffalo to Albany brought CWA Nurses United/Local 1168 members not only widespread media attention and public support but meetings with Gov. Eliot Spitzer and top legislators and staff on the impact of proposed NY hospital closings.

President Bush is calling for an increase in the federal cap on H1-B visas to allow high-tech workers from other countries to take jobs in the United States.

In a victory for the St. Louis Newspaper Guild-CWA, an arbitrator has revoked a reporter's two-day suspension and blasted the company's failure to comply with progressive disciplinary procedures spelled out in the Guild contract.

Joined by CWA President Larry Cohen and District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton for the final leg, about 40 members of Local 1168 are set to complete a 320-mile walk from Buffalo to Albany tomorrow morning to save hospitals and jobs in Western New York.