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Showing growing opposition to the proposed sale of Verizon landlines to FairPoint Communications, a delegation including CWA Local 1400 Steward Cliff Knapp delivered more than 5,000 postcards to the governor of Maine at his office in Augusta on Sept. 25 asking him to oppose the sale.

Verizon technicians throughout CWA District 2 will get specific training in electrical safety and health issues under a settlement the union fought for after a Maryland technician was killed on the job last year.

CWA is expanding a grassroots campaign launched in Pennsylvania in August to bring high-speed Internet access to all residents and create a statewide franchise for cable TV.

August's mobilization by Embarq members and retirees drew extensive media coverage of the company's termination of retiree health benefits for Medicare-eligible pensioners.

AT&T has announced that it will open a DSL/Internet support call center in Little Rock, Ark. as part of the company's agreement with CWA to return customer service jobs to the United States that had been outsourced.