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More than 700 CWA members in the Phoenix area have joined the ranks of the unemployed, some of them with more than 30 years of service to their former AT&T cable plant, bought by Belden Communications in 1999.

Tell your jobless friends or those flipping burgers because they lost a higher-paying job with benefits that the "compassionate" Bush re-election team has figured out how to help: anti-depressants.

Invited to give labor's view of outsourcing to a World Bank conference, CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen said the cycle of contracting out services to the cheapest labor markets is bad for workers, for consumers and for economic growth, leading "to a relentless global race to the bottom."

More than 6 million U.S. workers still stand to lose their right to overtime pay beginning in late August, in spite of an aggressive union campaign that forced the Department of Labor to make changes in its final rule governing who's eligible for overtime.

AT&T's plan to abandon the residential telephone market - both local and long distance - and to stop competing for small business customers in some markets is the latest in a long list of bad decisions costly for workers and shareholders, CWA leaders say.