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The state of Texas ended a multimillion contract to privatize crucial social services programs, including food stamps, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, all work done by members of the Texas State Employees Union, CWA Local 6186.

Following a meltdown in US Airways' computer reservations system that resulted in long customer lines and other problems at Charlotte, Buffalo, Philadelphia and other airports in early March, CWA and the Teamsters urged US Airways' CEO to restore customer service staffing to levels necessary to relieve an overworked and overburdened workforce.

A sea of red shirts and chants of "Hey, hey, ho, ho, FairPoint has got to go"

Cingular Wireless workers in Puerto Rico, members of Local 3010, ratified a new 4-year contract that improves wages and holidays and establishes a Strategic Alliance Committee to address issues important to the members between bargaining.

About 600 Local 1170 members working for Frontier Telephone of Rochester, N.Y., will see a 2-percent wage increase and an annual 4.5 percent performance bonus in each of the three years of their new tentative contract settlement – and keep their fully paid health benefits.