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A Day Off to Vote
The 400,000 members of United Auto Workers will have plenty of time to cast ballots, drive voters to the polls and do last-minute lobbying on Election Day, thanks to a rare benefit negotiated by union leaders last year.

It was late September 1999 and union leaders from NABET-CWA Local 26 had been summoned by management from WSKG, the public broadcasting station in Binghamton, N.Y.

Across the country, from Seattle to Miami to Washington, thousands of union members gathered to remember Dr. Martin Luther King and to build on his call for social and economic justice. Atlanta — Dr.

A New Hampshire newspaper has the solution to the controversy over a Labor Department letter suggesting employers are liable for job-related injuries suffered by home-based workers:

Negotiate.

AT&T has backed away from its attempt to eliminate toll-free directory assistance service, a big victory for CWAers who have been fighting to protect operator jobs and preserve this important customer service.