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Bargaining for Day 10 opened at 11:10AM. The Union passed their counter to Article 16 – Force Adjustment Protection and Article 24 – Shutdown Scheduling.

Today the Avaya bargaining unit members have voted overwhelmingly by a 96% vote to authorize the CWA Leadership to call a strike against Avaya if a fair contract cannot be reached.

Washington, D.C. - Members of the Communications Workers of America at Avaya voted overwhelmingly to give CWA leaders authorization to call a strike if a fair contract cannot be reached. Members authorized strike action by a 96 percent vote.

We met with the company this morning and received responses to more data requests. The company passed a counter proposal on the Academic Awards and the Sickness Accident Disability Plan which contained only minor changes to their original ones.

During May 19-20, 2006, the District 9 Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Retreat was conducted in Manhattan Beach, California. The retreat was held for the primary purposes of bringing local OSH health activists together to Discuss, coordinate, and develop tactics and strategies focused upon identifying, preventing, and/or resolving member workplace safety and health hazards and related illnesses and injuries - Share information on successes and failures, and establish and further communication and networking between and among national, district, and local OSH activists.