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It's the height of hypocrisy, say social workers and administrative staff at the National Association of Social Workers. NASW Executive Director Betsy Clark says she wants to improve the wages and working conditions of social workers across the land, but she doesn't practice what she preaches.

Delegates representing more than 5,000 Cingular Wireless workers from CWA locals in Districts 1, 2, 4, 9 and 13 met in Washington, D.C., in November for an historic first bargaining council.

CWA reached a tentative 7-year, 7-month agreement with Lucent Technologies that greatly reduces the company's demands for substantial health care cost shifting of premiums to active and retired workers and achieves new job security gains. The contract will remain in effect through May 2012.

Since the Bush administration thinks corporate offshoring is "a good thing," perhaps it's not surprising that our government doesn't track the numbers of American jobs that are shifted overseas each year.

CWA has reached a tentative agreement with Verizon California that provides real improvements in wages, health care and minimum pensions and employment security, among other gains.