Emilio Gonzalez was nervous when he sat down in front of the TV late Tuesday night. What to expect after a goofy day a few weeks earlier when comedian Stephen Colbert and his camera crew invaded the TNG-CWA member's dishwasher testing lab at Consumers Union?

"I wasn't sure how they would spin it," said Gonzalez, treasurer of the 260-member unit of The New York Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA Local 31003. "It wasn't rehearsed in any way, we just went with the flow. He made it easy."

As summer heats up, CWA is asking outside technicians to take an online survey to help assess how many members have suffered heat stress symptoms and what employers are doing to limit exposure and provide training.

The five-question survey is at http://www.cwa-union.org/pages/cwa_heat_stress_survey. Local presidents and staff will be receiving an e-mail about the survey and are asked to make sure that all outside technicians are notified.

The proposed Comcast-NBCU merger would lead to job cuts, aggravate the already anti-competitive behavior of the cable industry and restrict consumer access to the online video content of their choice, CWA District 9 Vice President James Weitkamp told the U.S. House Judiciary Committee at a field hearing Monday in Los Angeles.

Weitkamp said the merger "is not in the public interest" and will have a huge impact on video competition, choice and jobs. He said the two companies already have begun to deploy a "TV Everywhere" model that forces people to buy cable packages in order to see content online.

The proposed Comcast-NBCU merger would lead to job cuts, aggravate the already anti-competitive behavior of the cable industry and restrict consumer access to the online video content of their choice, CWA District 9 Vice President James Weitkamp told the U.S. House Judiciary Committee at a field hearing Monday in Los Angeles.

Weitkamp said the merger "is not in the public interest" and will have a huge impact on video competition, choice and jobs. He said the two companies already have begun to deploy a "TV Everywhere" model that forces people to buy cable packages in order to see content online.