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Nearly 300 workers at Bell Atlantic Directory Graphics in Valley Forge, Pa. will become CWA members under a major organizing campaign conducted under the cardcheck and neutrality rules the union negotiated in its 1998 Bell Atlantic contract.

Organizing victories:

TNG-CWA Canada Director Arnold Amber reported that The Newspaper Guild has been certified as bargaining representative for 48 editorial employees at the Leader-Post in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Work rules changing at a whim, no recognition for advanced degrees, inconsistency on pay for "snow days" — just a few of the "respect issues" that led one worker at Baker Victory Services-Early Childhood Program to pick up the telephone.

CWA Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Easterling called on union activists in Texas to keep up the hard work that helped millions of working Americans send a clear message to Congress in the 1998 midterm elections.

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