We received the following report from Local 9415. We would like to congratulate all the people at 9415 for this achievement, and thank everybody involved for their hard work.

CWA shop stewards across the country leafleted employees at Verizon locations, kicking off an education and membership mobilization campaign to prevent the company from sending bargaining unit work to non-union technicians and service reps acquired in Verizon's recent purchase of MCI.

As long as profit-hungry media owners and shareholders continue to treat journalism like any other Wall Street investment, newspapers will continue to see their readership and quality decline, panelists agreed at a Washington, D.C., event co-sponsored by CWA's Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild.

The OFS Tentative Agreement was voted down.