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Cingular Wireless retail workers in Puerto Rico were already celebrating a breakthrough in organizing, with American Arbitration Association certification for 325 employees at nine regional stores and 115 kiosks, when on Aug.

Fortune magazine recently excoriated the 25 “greediest executives” who cashed in on billions in insider stock sales while many of them knew their companies were about to nose-dive — in some cases, even while cooking the books to keep the rest of us in the dark.

The AFL-CIO is working to secure severance pay, medical coverage and other benefits for laid off WorldCom workers and is meeting with WorldCom attorneys to press the company to keep its promises.

Arguments on US Airways' bid to throw out its collective bargaining agreements with CWA and the Machinists will be heard by the bankruptcy court on Sept. 10.

President George W. Bush has vetoed a badly needed increase in funding of the medical screening program that is helping CWA members and other workers exposed to hazards at the site of the World Trade Center collapse.