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CWA is joining the Steelworkers, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council as part of the Blue Green Alliance that is working to create good "green" jobs that help solve the problems of global warming.

Just days after American taxpayers forked over $85 billion to bail out the American International Group (AIG), the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat complete with luxury spa treatments, golf, $200,000 worth of lavish hotel rooms and $150,000 in meals.

Cards from CWAers signing on to the Million Member Mobilization for Employee Free Choice neared 100,000 as of Oct. 6, with number of supporters reaching 97,842.

Rejecting the efforts of IUE-CWA to negotiate a way to save a General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, the company has announced it will shut down the plant and lay off the final 1,400 workers two days before Christmas.

CWA President Larry Cohen met online with members across the country on Wednesday to answer a wide range of questions about the election, the economy, workers rights, outsourcing, health care, retirement security and the future of the union movement.