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It's a year of self-examination for the labor movement as it struggles to rebuild declining union membership during the second term of a notoriously anti-union president.

In the battles American workers are forced to fight to exercise their rights to organize and bargain, union-busting companies frequently rely on the advice of management-side labor lawyers.

Two new CWA Executive Board members were sworn in by President Bahr on Jan. 9 at the board's meeting in Palm Springs, Calif.

Mobilization and an effective e-mail campaign by CWA Local 2382 have resulted in a three-year agreement for members at the National Association of Social Workers that is 30 percent better than what management initially proposed.

A dispute over work that hundreds of retired technicians were to be allowed to do for Avaya in 2003 and 2004 has led to a $3.75 million settlement, which will be distributed to affected CWA and IBEW members.