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Spurred by CWA, the AFL-CIO Executive Council has embraced a sweeping new program to build up the labor movement and bring collective bargaining and organizing rights to tens of millions of workers.

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The Federal Communications Commission, as part of a review of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, voted in February to keep in place burdensome requirements affecting the regional Bell companies.

A three-month lockout at the Sudbury Star in Ontario, Canada, has ended, with TNG-CWA Local 30234 members agreeing to a four-year contract that will raise salaries by 9.25 percent for fulltime workers and 15 percent for part-timers.

A new four-year contract improving wages and holding the line on employees' health care costs ended a 10-day strike in February by IUE-CWA members at Kerns Manufacturing, a Long Island, N.Y., aerospace industry parts supplier.