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The U.S. Senate's majority support for the Employee Free Choice Act this week shows what unions can and will accomplish in 2009 after America's working families elect a pro-worker president and gain more seats in Congress, CWA President Larry Cohen said.

Wal-Mart's "falling prices" are far more costly to the American economy than its shoppers know – or perhaps want to know: Its deals with manufacturers in China cost 200,000 American jobs between 2001 and 2006.

The UAW last week agreed to a tentative labor pact with Delphi covering about 17,000 members. Meanwhile, IUE-CWA leadership remains in Troy, Mich., where Delphi is headquartered, and continues to bargain on behalf of the remaining 1,500 workers it represents at Delphi.

IUE-CWA members this week voted to ratify their new four-year contract with General Electric with 79 percent approving the agreement, which boosts wages by 16 percent and provides significant pension increases for the 10,000 workers.

CWA members and retirees, community supporters, elected officials and activists concerned about the possible closing of the Alcatel Lucent facility in North Andover, Mass., rallied at the local community college on June 24 to show their determination to keep the plant open.