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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced today that its investigation into the death of Verizon technician Douglas Lalima — who was electrocuted while working on a utility pole in Brooklyn last September — has resulted in 10 citations against Verizon and fines totaling 0,700 for serious and repeated failures by the company to abide by critical safety rules. The fines in the citation are the maximum penalties under the law for such egregious conduct.
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Quick news from around the Web.

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> MetroPCS will start a mail in promotion in March. Article

> Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7.7 is now available through Verizon Wireless. Release

> Verizon Wireless is offering 0 off all its LTE smartphones for one day. Page

> Huawei said it will build phones using the Tizen platform. Article

> Hewlett-Packard cut another 275 workers from its webOS staff. Article

Mobile Content News

> Nokia and Microsoft’s maps are unifying their appearance. Article

> Sprint Nextel’s Sprint TV service is launching on iOS. Post

> Samsung Electronics plans to “significantly” increase investment in its bada smartphone operating system, pitching the platform as an alternative to Google’s Android. Article

> Cloud services provider Brightcove unveiled the latest edition of its App Cloud content platform here at Mobile World Congress 2012. Article

> Images stored on devices running Apple’s iOS mobile operating system are vulnerable to downloaded applications that can copy the user’s entire photo library without any further notification or warning, The New York Times reports. Article

> A new report indicates iOS developers can gain unapproved access to iPhone and iPad users’ photos and videos. Article

> Marvel graphic novels are now on sale in the Apple iBooks bookstore. Article

Broadband Wireless News

> The first Qualcomm Gobi modem chipsets to support LTE Advanced will begin sampling in the fourth quarter of 2012 and will feature carrier-aggregation capability. Article

> Sunil Mittal, chairman and managing director of Bharti Airtel, called for the GSM Association to launch an ultra-low-cost smartphone program to help build mobile broadband in the developing world. Article

European Wireless News

> Wireless operators suffering from sluggish revenues and increasing threats from the likes of Facebook and Amazon should invest in customer-friendly cloud services to win the hearts of consumers, explained Rene Obermann, the chairman and CEO of Deutsche Telekom. Article

And finally… BlackBerry lost another customer to iPhone, this time the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Article

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Join us tonight as CWA national officers update members on the status of Verizon bargaining.
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With high spirits and chants of “We are the 99%!”, a dozen marchers headed South from Albany to Stuyvesant, New York. The weather for the kick-off was beautiful. Labor leaders and State Senator Breslin, State Assmeblymember McEneny and others joined CWA Vice President Chris Shelton to rally up the crowd in front of the Verizon building, across from the State Capitol and Occupy Albany. Marchers were warmly greeted upon arrival in Stuyvesant, with some locals bringing refreshments to share with the group. Some of the marchers wanted to Occupy Stuyvesant after that but Friday is another big day to send a message to the 1% at Verizon. Onward!
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Doug Lalima, a beloved CWA Local 1109 member and father of four, died last week after coming in contact with power lines while working on elevated Verizon cables.
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Showing Verizon and downtown Washington, D.C., what solidarity looks like, 500 CWA, AFSCME and UNI Global Union members marched and rallied Wednesday in support of Verizon workers fighting for a fair contract.
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Tens of thousands of working Americans, other unions, students, civil rights, religious, and community groups have joined union members’ fight to get Verizon to bargain in good faith. More than 150,000 people so far have signed CWA’s online petition, urging Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam to stop union-busting and negotiate fairly.
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With the strike at Verizon now in its 13th day, 45,000 members of CWA and IBEW remain determined to stay out as long as it takes to get the company to bargain in good faith with their union bargaining teams.
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In just one week, more than 100,000 people have called on Verizon chief executive officer Lowell McAdam to get serious about bargaining and to stop trying to push Verizon workers out of the middle class.
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Washington, D.C. — August 12, 2011 — The Communications Workers of America has filed unfair labor practice charges against Verizon Communications for labor law violations in contract negotiations covering Verizon, Verizon Wireless and VCSI workers. The charges, filed with National Labor Relations Board offices in New York and Baltimore, make the case that Verizon has refused to bargain in good faith with CWA.
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