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Nearly 1,200 CWA activists and allies have launched the most formidable mobilization ever in support of New Jersey public worker bargaining, with AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka pledging the full support of the Federation's 12 million members.

CWA warned that the University of California is undermining the quality of its research programs - and jeopardizing advances in medicine, the sciences and technology - by its employment and funding practices.

Gov. Parris Glendening, on his way to dedicate The Washington Post's new $230 million printing plant in College Park, Md., March 8, stopped to encourage TNG-CWA Local 35 members who demonstrated outside.

Members of CWA Local 6139, on strike at Helena Laboratories in Beaumont, Texas, want the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to force the company to clean up its act - and the dangerous working conditions at the plant.

Directors of the Joseph Anthony Beirne Memorial Foundation approved partial college scholarships of up to $3,000 each for 30 first-year and 100 second-year students, and also granted funding to eight projects devoted to labor education and workers' rights.