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Business accountability suddenly emerged as a huge news topic in the wake of corporate bankruptcies, accounting scandals and stories of CEOs looting their corporations of hundreds of millions of dollars while workers lose their jobs and retirement security.

A labor delegation’s summer trip to Taiwan raised the spirits of Chinese Daily News workers in Los Angeles whose managers have long refused to recognize their bargaining unit and persist in a cruel campaign of fear tactics and humiliation against pro-union employees.

CWA is urging members who worked or volunteered at the site of the World Trade Center collapse to take part in free medical screenings and related services, even if they have seen their own doctor.

IUE-CWA local union officers representing workers at General Electric Co. are planning the union’s response to GE’s decision to raise workers’ costs in one of its health care plans, effective January 2003.

Striking workers at SPX Corp.’s Fenn Manufacturing in Newington, Conn., members of IUE-CWA Local 81266, are in a tough fight with the aerospace components maker.

Picket lines went up July 9, with 117 union members determined to beat the company’s campaign to break the union.