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CWA members and hundreds of other unionists protested the Bush administration's rollback of workers' overtime rights. The U.S. Department of Labor building, site of the protest, was denounced by one activist as "the scene of the crime."

Members of a new CWA local were in the process of ratifying its first contract as the Newsletter went to press - and of celebrating the addition of another 250 members - District 7 President John Thompson reported.

As expected, CWA's neutrality and card check recognition agreement with Verizon Wireless expired August 17 with no prospect of renewing - let alone improving - the language negotiated as part of the 2000 round of Verizon bargaining.

Workplace safety and health rules have taken a huge hit under the Bush administration, most without input from labor and few generating any media coverage, a comprehensive Washington Post series reported this week.

Gary Nilsson, president of Local 1365 in North Andover, Mass., is back on solid foods as the issue involving laid-off Lucent workers that led him to a hunger strike July 1 heads to arbitration.