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CWA along with its broadcast and journalism sectors, NABET-CWA and The Newspaper Guild-CWA, are joining seven other unions to form the first industry coordinating committee (ICC) being established as part of the AFL-CIO's new reform program, "Winning for Working Families."

Aided by fellow unionists in Spain, U.S. journalists at the Spanish news agency EFE won representation in an NLRB election when workers voted for TNG-CWA. Based in Miami, their unit works out of news bureaus there as well as in Washington, D.C., New York and other cities.

Cingular's statewide unit of 57 former AT&T Wireless network technicians in Pennsylvania are now represented by CWA Local 13000 following a card check procedure.

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.