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Last June, Marilyn Salas, a nurse-midwife and mother of three from Albuquerque, N.M., completed her master’s degree and promptly packed her bags for Washington, D.C. She’s now handling health and environmental issues for Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia. Her ticket to Capitol Hill?

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CWA’s training center in Washington, D.C. on March 2 graduated its first class of 15 technicians referred by the Prince Georges’ Workforce Services Corp., the union’s suburban Maryland community partner.

Building upon a history of common cause and struggle by minorities and labor unions, CWA’s National Civil Rights and Equity Conference addressed a broad range of initiatives to encourage minority leadership in the union, the community and the nation.

Twenty-nine professional staff at American Postal Workers Union headquarters in Washington, D.C., have become CWA members through voluntary card-check recognition, joining the Newspaper Guild-CWA Local 35.