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Mobilization by the Texas State Employees Union-CWA, combined with a contractor's own ineptness, has brought to a grinding halt plans to close 99 local human services offices and lay off 2,900 state employees.

"It was a real slap in the face" for her Verizon business office members to find the company's DSL broadband service being sold at — of all places — Wal-Mart, said Local 2106 President Paula Vinciguerra of Salisbury, Md.

Technology, greed and an anti-regulatory fervor among American broadcast corporations made the radio disc jockey all but extinct well before "outsourcing" became a household word.

U.S. workers in information technology are getting hit from all sides. If they work for big companies like IBM and Microsoft, they face layoffs and watch their jobs going offshore. If they work for contractors in the U.S., they still see their jobs disappear overseas.

When AT&T Yellow Pages in St. Louis created a new job title to sell Internet advertising, CWA Representative Mike Franken saw an opportunity.