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Labor leaders expressed outrage at the National Labor Relations Board's decision to deprive temporary workers of the right to bargain as part of a unit with permanent employees and to severely restrict their right to organize.

William Carl "W.C." Button, the last CWA vice president of District 5, now part of District 4, died Dec. 6 at his home in White House, Texas. He was 79.

The governor of Mississippi has a problem. He's facing an estimated $628 million budget gap next year.

Local 7019 members have ratified a new four-year pact with Citizens Telephone Co. in Showlow, Ariz., that provides raises of nearly 8.5 percent and creates a "Common Interest Forum" to foster programs that can benefit the company, customers and workers.

It's the height of hypocrisy, say social workers and administrative staff at the National Association of Social Workers. NASW Executive Director Betsy Clark says she wants to improve the wages and working conditions of social workers across the land, but she doesn't practice what she preaches.