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Three months into their first CWA contract, more than 400 employees of the San Manuel Indian Casino in San Bernardino, Calif., are enjoying healthy raises and a new sense of job security.

NABET-CWA Local 59053 won a settlement at KMEX-TV in Los Angeles that ended a nearly month-long strike at the Univision-owned station.

Victories elsewhere:

• District 1. Forty-three employees at the Jewish Press in Brooklyn, N.Y., won voluntary recognition for wall-to-wall representation at the facility. They will be represented by CWA Printing Sector Local 6 (CWA 14156).

For years CWA Local 7911 President Mike Williams assisted, advised and courted the Rio Rancho (N.M.) Department of Public Safety Association. Now ecstatic over the association’s Sept.

When belt-tightening at Hemet Valley Hospital became down right mean-spirited, licensed vocational nurses, clinical technicians and laboratory technicians responded, choosing representation by CWA Local 9588. They voted 59-54 on Sept. 19 to bring their unit of 187 workers into the local.