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As AT&T announced it was cutting 2,400 jobs, Ralph Maly, CWA vice president for Communications and Technologies, criticized the company for another “in a long line of bad business decisions” shaking consumer, worker and shareholder confidence.

When Tyco Electronics purchased Lucent’s manufacturing plant in Mesquite, Texas, about 1,000 members of Local 6260 were ready to make a new start with a new company. Tyco had agreed to honor Lucent’s contract, preserving wages and benefits, seniority and pensions.

That was in January.

For the first time in 37 years, CWA Local 1370 went on strike against Rockbestos-Surprenant Cable Corp. in Clinton, Mass. The nearly month-long strike ended Oct. 29, when the bargaining unit voted 87-44 to accept a proposal recommended by the union.

CWA members and community supporters are fighting to “save family wage jobs” at the Lucent Technologies Merrimack Valley Works in Andover, Mass.

CWA won a big victory in its drive to gain federal protections for airline passenger service agents who are increasingly threatened by passengers and “airport rage” as they carry out their security duties.