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Imputed income for spouse and child life insurance was calculated and applied to 8,345 bargained participants paychecks in 2009, in error. It was announced during Annual Enrollment that this imputed income type would no longer be applicable.

Retired CWA Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Easterling was elected president of the Alliance for Retired Americans, carrying on work she started when she founded CWA's Retired Members' Council. The ARA is an organization allied with the AFL-CIO.

CWA's Legislative Department has launched an electronic newsletter to help CWA members stay up to date with a busy schedule of bills and administrative actions that are critical to working families.

CWA leaders say that the stimulus program that President Obama signed this week is a good investment in America's economic recovery. By expanding job opportunities for working Americans – especially in critical areas like broadband build out and other infrastructure investment – this plan will get the economy moving again, said CWA President Larry Cohen.

Last week, nearly 250 CWA technicians at Verizon Connected Solutions Inc., shared a back pay award of more than $2 million, the result of an arbitration decision that found that VCSI failed to pay workers for performing work of higher-paid senior techs, said CWA District 2 Vice President Ron Collins.