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Personal financial worries and a disgust with greedy employers has a growing majority of Americans favoring unions and condemning the threats, bullying and firings used to thwart workers' organizing and bargaining rights.

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.

Battling demands for major health care cost shifting and job security concessions, members of Local 1170 voted 400-8 this week to authorize a strike at Citizens Frontier Communications in Rochester, N.Y.

CWA has become aware that Avaya is rolling out the above program electronically. There is a serious integrity issue with the program.