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A month of solid campaigning by CWA members in New Mexico and an intense get-out-the-vote effort Tuesday gave a former CWA local president a decisive second term win as Santa Fe's mayor.

In a campaign that has won support of New York state lawmakers, activists and unions, and Spanish-language organizations, EZ Pass workers in Staten Island, members of CWA Local 1102, are refusing to handle Spanish-language calls because they are paid less than co-workers who handle calls in English.

TNG-CWA Local 31003 filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board over Thomson Reuters Corp.'s illegal and unilateral pay cuts that drastically cut the compensation of journalists, technicians and other employees by 10 percent.

IUE-CWA members are ramping up their "Shame on Whirlpool" campaign, urging the company not to carry out plans to close its Evansville, Ind., refrigerator plant and move their jobs to Mexico.

Organized labor has been a leader in helping workers gain college degrees and the latest in career training through affordable online degree programs. The AFL-CIO and the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md., are expanding educational opportunities for working families through a new partnership with the Princeton Review and its Penn Foster Education Group.