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Following a strong inside campaign by unrepresented ramp and gate agents at Piedmont Airlines, CWA this week filed a union representation election petition on behalf of the group with the National Mediation Board, which governs labor relations in the airline and railroad industries.

It's unanimous. Regulatory staff in all three northern New England states where Verizon is trying to sell its local phone operations now have urged rejection of the proposed deal with FairPoint Communications.

Fed up with management's refusal to budge on health care and sick pay rollbacks, members of The Newspaper Guild-CWA at the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky launched an ad campaign and turned out in force for a rally and march Wednesday to take their message to the community.

Members of CWA, TNG-CWA and NABET-CWA are actively supporting striking members of the Writers Guild of America.

CWA Local 2205 members at a Verizon FiOS Fiber Solutions Center, in Hampton, Va., probably figured Thanksgiving Day would be just another long shift in two years of weeks packed with forced overtime.