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Soon after his State of the Union address in January, President Obama released an updated "Strategy for American Innovation." In the same month, the Department of Commerce was tasked with completing a comprehensive study by January 2012. An Innovation Advisory Board of private citizens was created to work in consultation with the Department of Commerce on this important report. To help inform the consultation process for the report, the Communications Workers of America ? which has a seat on the Innovation Advisory Board ?co-sponsored a half-day conference with Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

As bargaining continues, thousands of CWAers and allies are keeping up the pressure on Verizon and Verizon Wireless to bargain a fair contract.

National and district CWA leaders will be updating members on Verizon and Verizon Wireless negotiations and mobilization next Thursday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. (EDT).

CWA, Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Center for Economic and Policy Research hosted a forum for economic and policy experts on wage inequality, innovation and global and competitive challenges facing the U.S.

Calling for jobs and economic justice, CWA members were among thousands of Americans who marched last Saturday to the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on Washington's National Mall.