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Brisk organizing activity in May, June and July brought CWA more than 2,500 new members.

In the face of the current economic slump, CWA has been working in a variety of ways to ease the effects and uncertainty for members in the telecommunications sector.

Negotiators have reached a tentative agreement for CWA members at Cincinnati Bell that improves health care coverage beyond an earlier proposal that was voted down. The new agreement came at the July 9 strike deadline.

CWA passenger service agents at US Airways want management to meet them halfway as both sides bargain over the airline’s cost-cutting demands.

After nearly a year on strike, CWA members at the New Era Cap Co. of Derby, N.Y. ratified an agreement that met their key demands for setting a fair pay scale with union input and for safety and health improvements in the plant, along with other gains.