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Locals have one more week to submit entries for the CWA Local Newsletter Awards competition and have a chance to receive recognition at the Convention this July for their communications efforts. Entries must be postmarked no later than June 1.

It's nearing deadline, TNG-CWA members: There's just one week before the first round of digital media classes being offered by The Newspaper Guild and the CWA/NETT Academy begins.

As Congress began debate on a new immigration bill, members of TechsUnite and the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech), CWA Local 37083, sent a message to Senators and Representatives: Increasing the number of H1-B visas issued is bad policy, for high tech workers and the U.S. economy.

An independent recount of shareholders' votes on the "Say on Pay" resolution at Verizon's May 3 annual meeting confirmed late last week that the CWA-backed executive compensation measure won majority support from stockholders, passing by 50.18 percent.

Public anger and concern over Verizon's planned sale of its rural access lines in New England to the tiny telecom, Fairpoint Communications, boiled over last weekend, as nearly 1,000 labor and community activists united in a "stop the sale" rally in Portsmouth, N.H.