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A big victory for a campaign dubbed "One Big Bang" has created a new unit of The Newspaper Guild-CWA comprising 225 workers at the largest newspaper company in northern California's Bay Area.

CWA Local 1133's bargaining team reached a tentative agreement with Catholic Health System and Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y.

In a victory for CWA's Speed Matters campaign, the Federal Communications Commission this week released its order raising its definition of "high speed" broadband service from 200 kilobits per second (kbps) to 768 kbps for downloading.

At the urging of a freshman representative, Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley, the U.S. House has overwhelmingly passed a bill that urges taxpayers to spend their stimulus checks on American products and services.

Last week it was House Republicans holding up benefits for jobless workers whose aid is about to expire – though enough of them finally came to their senses to pass the bill.