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Employees of the Los Angeles-based Chinese Daily News, joined by many elected officials and community activists, took a strong stand in their fight for a union at an April 12 news conference.

Verizon has started to send notices to thousands of women who may be eligible for additional benefits under a settlement reached in a class-action pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by CWA, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other plaintiffs.

As part of a continuing company-wide restructuring, Lucent Technologies has reached a three-year purchase agreement with Solectron Corp., resulting in Solectron’s taking over a major portion of the manufacturing work at Lucent’s Merrimack Valley Works facility.

A marathon 24-hour bargaining session resulted in an early tentative agreement at AT&T that provided improvements in wages, benefits and job security and staved off the company’s giveback demands.

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