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Shareholders arriving for Verizon's annual meeting in Houston on May 5 were greeted by past and present CWA and IBEW members handing out fliers that turned the now-universally known Verizon Wireless slogan on its head.

CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen welcomed a statement by Deutsche Telekom CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke that the time has come to negotiate a global framework agreement with Union Network International to ensure labor rights for workers throughout the Deutsche Telekom group of companies, including T-Mob

Frazzled nerves from constant phone chatter, trouble hearing emergency announcements, increased "air rage"—all were identified by air travelers as good reasons for the government to continue to ban in-flight cell phone use, according to a poll sponsored by CWA and the National Consumers League.

The completion rate for online instruction through CWA/NETT Academy is twice as high as other programs in the distance-learning field.

Middle-class workers would suffer dramatic cuts in guaranteed retirement benefits under President Bush's latest scheme to dismantle Social Security, and economists say the irony is that they'd lose more than they would if nothing is done to shore up the Social Security Trust Fund.