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The CWA bargaining team has been boosted in its negotiations with Verizon North Central by a strong member mobilization and solidarity across all five states.

NABET-CWA Local 51011 in New York City on Jan. 21 announced a voluntary recognition for about 19 employees at Quantum Technology Inc.

Imagine an employer holding you responsible for institutionalizing its developmentally disabled clients because you chose to vote for a union. That's the guilt trip organizers say was laid on 72 direct care workers employed in group homes run by St. John's Community Services.

Two new CWA Executive Board members were sworn in by President Bahr on Jan. 9 at the board's meeting in Palm Springs, Calif.

CWA's Executive Board called on union leaders and activists at all levels to keep up the momentum from the 2004 political mobilization. In a resolution, the board warned against letting grassroots political structures atrophy in the face of the "looming fight against the privatization of Social Security, the fight for good jobs, universal access to affordable health care, and the all-important fight to protect the freedom of workers to freely join a union…."