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Seven Republican members of Congress have signed a letter to Deutsche Telekom chief executive officer Rene Olbermann calling on the company to "follow the same, fair policies at your U.S. subsidiary as at Deutsche Telekom" with regard to workers' rights to decide for themselves, free from management interference, whether they want to organize and bargain collectively.

NABET-CWA has been in tough bargaining with PBS, the nation's public broadcasting network, for a new contract covering some 50 technicians, editors and satellite workers, members of Local 52031.

In rejecting the airline industry's challenge to new, democratic rules governing representation elections for airline and railroad workers, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman said the National Mediation Board was fully within its rights to change the rules, and that the agency demonstrated "that the change is essential."

Technical workers at St. Mary's Hospital in Reno, Nev., will get a 9.5 percent raise over the next two years under a first contract that the new members of CWA Local 9413 ratified overwhelmingly Tuesday night.