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The results are in from CWA's e-poll -- the first on-line presidential candidate preference poll ever conducted by a major labor union. CWA members expressed a preference against an early endorsement and demonstrated close margins among the top vote-getters.

CWA commended the House of Representatives this week on passage of the Broadband Census of America Act of 2007, calling for the mapping of broadband speeds and access throughout the country. The action moves the nation another step closer to bringing high speed Internet access to every American, said CWA President Larry Cohen.

Angered by a slew of recent NLRB decisions that are stripping workers of their rights, CWA members and staff joined other union activists — 1,000 altogether — at a noontime rally Thursday in front of National Labor Relation Board headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C.

Growing numbers of lawmakers in New Hampshire and Vermont are standing with CWA and IBEW members in voicing concern over the pending sale of Verizon's access lines in Northern New England to tiny FairPoint Communications.

It took nine years, a lawsuit and some 400,000 injured workers before the Bush administration had its arm twisted hard enough to issue a rule requiring employers to pay for personal protective gear for workers in dangerous jobs.