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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.

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

Members of Local 7777 participate in Band-Aid day at Westminster and hold an informational picket at HR

Faces of members' children adorn the walls of the bargaining conference room, staring at the company, pleading to keep healthcare, jobs and other benefits for our members.

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.