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The Senate voted overwhelmingly March 30 to add $6 billion in child care funds to the pending welfare reauthorization bill, an issue that CWA activists attending the Legislative-Political Conference fought for on Capitol Hill.

At the Democratic Unity dinner in Washington, D.C., in late March, Senator John Kerry spotted CWA President Morton Bahr and gave him a hug.

Four years ago, the economy was strong, unemployment was low and, for a few more months, labor unions and working families had a friend in the White House.

Three WashTech-CWA members and a West Virginia member who lost her AT&T job were among 51 unemployed workers who told their stories in March to crowds in 18 cities from St. Louis, Mo., to Washington, D.C. - stops on the AFL-CIO's "Show Us the Jobs" bus tour.

After a year, still confronting an intransigent management at the bargaining table, CWA's Printing Sector is mobilizing the full Washington, D.C., Council of Newspaper Unions to win a fair contract for 400 mailers and helpers at the Washington Post.