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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Saturday March 29 will set up hundreds of locations at which retirees, veterans and low-income workers who do not file income tax returns can apply to receive their economic stimulus payment.

CWA reached a tentative three-year agreement with Century Tel of Missouri which strengthens job security provisions and safeguards seniority – two key issues in the talks – and boosts wages, among other gains. The pact covers about 350 workers, members of CWA Locals 6301, 6310, 6311, 6312 and 6373.

"Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is essential to setting a political agenda that benefits working Americans after the 2008 elections," CWA President Larry Cohen said in an address to more than 1,000 participants at the "Take Back America" conference in Washington, D.C., this week.

Canadian members of CWA talk about their country's health care system and how it compares with the costly system in the United States in a video that the Canadian Media Guild produced for last year's CWA convention in Toronto.

CWA is condemning Western Union Financial Services Inc., for its announced plans to close three facilities in Missouri and Texas and shift that work to non-union and overseas operations.