Volume 72, Issue #1 | Spring 2012

The work environment for journalists and broadcast workers couldn't be more dangerous today. Whether covering demonstrations throughout the Middle East, civil war in Africa or disasters here in the U.S., these CWA members put their lives and sometimes their freedom on the line to tell the world what's happening.

How big a problem is violence in the workplace? It?s big and getting bigger.

AT&T technicians, always on the streets, are reporting a spike in violence while on the job. ?We'll be working on a neighborhood box and someone will come up and jump you,? said Willis Ward, vice president and chair of Local 9404's health and safety committee.

Chilling details of the investigative report by California?s Division of Occupational Safety and Health into the UCLA lab fire that killed Sheri Sangji were just made public in January.

Nearly 20 percent of all violent crime occurs in the workplace, and 24 percent of workplace violence is related to personal relationships. So it?s a workplace issue.

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.