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Arbitration Award: CWA Local 9003/Verizon Accident Plan
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January 23, 2012
This precedent-setting ruling supports CWA?s position that Verizon?s Safety Policy/Accident Plan is arbitrary and capricious- intended to be used as a method to control and intimidate Company employees. If CWA leaders and members should witness or know of Company behavior identified in this case, they should notify their Local Union president, and/or CWA Staff as well as the Union?s Occupational Safety and Health Department.
CWA/USW Health and Safety Conference March 5-9 in Pittsburgh
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January 12, 2012
Registration is open for the 2012 CWA/USW Health and Safety Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 5-9. This year's conference, hosted jointly every other year by CWA and the Steelworkers, focuses on identifying workplace hazards and will offer workshops on hazard mapping, heat stress, ergonomics, hazardous materials and other topics.
December 2011 District 3 OSH Conference Call
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January 9, 2012
Minutes of the CWA District 3 Occupational Safety and Health Conference Call conducted on Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Felony Charges Filed in 2008 UCLA Lab Fire that Killed CWA Member
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January 5, 2012
The University of California and a UCLA professor are facing unprecedented felony charges in connection with a chemistry lab fire that fatally injured UPTE-CWA Local 9119 member Sheri Sangji three years ago.
CWA/USW Regional OSH Conferences: Atlanta, GA and Phoenix, AZ
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November 18, 2011
Some 500 CWA and USW health and safety activists participated in the unions? second and third 2011 regional occupational health, safety, and environment conferences conducted September 11-16 in Atlanta, Georgia and September 25-30 in Phoenix, Arizona. Inspired by CWA President Larry Cohen remarks at the Atlanta conference and District 7 Vice President Mary Taylor?s presentation in Phoenix which focused upon integrating workplace and environmental health and safety issues into the Union?s movement building efforts, activists enthusiastically involved themselves in the conference activities.