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NABET-CWA has negotiated an unprecedented agreement with NBC to provide union-represented engineering personnel for the network's Olympic telecasts through the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, Greece.

Three days of bargaining became one in late June when ABC/Disney management abruptly walked away from the table with NABET-CWA negotiators, after the union rejected network executives' demand for "unconditional surrender."

The European Commission's decision requiring MCI Communications to sell its entire Internet operation as a condition of merger with WorldCom wouldn't have happened without the persistence of CWA and other organizations that oppose the anti-competitive deal.

A CWA study, considered the most comprehensive scientific investigation ever into health problems associated with VDT (video display terminal) use among public workers, found a high injury rate among the 500-plus participants.

Employers may not impose a so-called merit pay plan on employees after bargaining has come to an impasse, the U.S. Supreme Court held in refusing to review a lower court ruling involving two California newspapers.