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It took three years, but court interpreters in Chicago finally have a union, having voted 51-29 to join the Chicago Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA Local 34071. The unit represents 121 Cook County interpreters who collectively speak 50 languages, as well as sign language.

CWA organizing surged ahead in the last month with three victories at Cingular Wireless, bringing to 4,100 the total number of Cingular workers gaining CWA representation in 2002.

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.