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After months of difficult negotiations and a lockout, 5,500 members of the Canadian Media Guild-CWA at Canada's public broadcasting network are voting on a proposed contract settlement that ensures their job security.

Across CWA, locals were marking Customer Service Week with a special focus on the Bush administration's efforts to slash the hard-won protections of the Family Medical Leave Act.

As talks neared the Oct. 8 contract expiration, CWA bargainers were pressing hard for a fair agreement covering more than 300 workers at Verizon Information Services in New York.

A state auditor's report shows that Texas hasn't saved any money in the privatization experiment that began a year ago when the Health and Human Services Commission put a corporation in charge of its human resource and payroll services.