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CWA once again is battling plans by Verizon to abandon phone service in rural areas — this time in northern New England and the upper Midwest — to concentrate its investments in lower-cost, higher-profit cities and suburbs.

The United States — the country that invented the Internet — has fallen from 1st to 16th in high speed Internet penetration. To assure economic growth, we must reverse that trend.

From Pennsylvania to Texas to California, 1,500 CWA-represented cable workers are fighting back against an industry that wants to prevent workers from having a voice on the job.

CWA locals and members at Verizon have been conducting a campaign to "Tear Down the Wall" between CWA and IBEW bargaining units and workers at non-union Verizon Business — composed of former MCI workers — and Verizon Wireless.

Supporters of so-called "net neutrality" are lobbying Congress to regulate the Internet and restrict the services that telcos and cable companies can offer, threatening the build-out of high speed connections to households in the United States.