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Organizing Roundup: CWA Leaps Ahead with Late Winter Growth Spurt

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April 1, 2002
CWA grew by more than 1,600 members in February and March with the addition of Cingular Wireless, SBC Telecom, Ameritech Yellow Pages, Camden, N.J., public schools and other units.

By far the largest numbers came in Districts 3 and 6, in coordinated campaigns at Cingular Wireless.

Job Security Key To Nationwide NBC Pact

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April 1, 2002
A tentative four-year settlement with NBC boosts wages by 12 percent for 2,400 broadcast employees nationwide and features job security language to protect news field engineers.

Verizon Directory Workers Finally Get Their Union

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April 1, 2002
“We want a union!”

That simple message was what Brooke Cavanaugh and Bob Hale brought to CWA’s 2001 convention last July in Minneapolis, where they spoke on behalf of 1,700 workers at Verizon Information Services, Verizon’s directory sales company.