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Workplace safety and health rules have taken a huge hit under the Bush administration, most without input from labor and few generating any media coverage, a comprehensive Washington Post series reported this week.

As expected, CWA's neutrality and card check recognition agreement with Verizon Wireless expired August 17 with no prospect of renewing - let alone improving - the language negotiated as part of the 2000 round of Verizon bargaining.

Members of a new CWA local were in the process of ratifying its first contract as the Newsletter went to press - and of celebrating the addition of another 250 members - District 7 President John Thompson reported.

CWA local presidents representing passenger service agents at US Airways continue to press management for a good faith response to proposals the union has made in response to the airline's call for cost reductions.

Across the country on Sept. 2, union members will knock on the doors of other union homes to talk with voters about what's at stake for American workers and their families in November's election.