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CWA local leaders recently learned that “catastrophic” rates of injury are striking union members whose work lives are tied to computers, and got tips from a rank-and-file panel on ways that the toll can be reduced.

CWA members mobilized in support of candidates and turned out large numbers at the polls Nov. 3, as union voters installed new friends of working families in the House, preserved a balance of power in the Senate and elected several pro-worker governors.

CWA Local 1120, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., recently reported two organizing victories, both won on second attempts after losing elections earlier this year.

CWA beat back company-inspired decertification attempts at Sprint marketing units in Fayetteville and New Bern, on Nov. 13, narrowly losing a third to a tie in Clinton, N.C.

Nurses Choose CWA as Health Systems Expand
CWA’s health care sector has expanded dramatically — by more than 1,200 new members — with the recent affiliations of two independent nurses’ unions.