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To: All AT&T Legacy T Local Presidents and Members

The Senate has finally confirmed John Brennan as CIA director. After Rand Paul launched a nearly 13-hour, old-school talking filibuster on the Senate floor yesterday in an attempt to block the nomination, today the Senate voted 63-34 to give him to the post. Paul?s defiant stand wasn?t as cinematic or dramatic as Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But it was an important civics lesson. This is how filibusters should work.

Bargaining and negotiations throughout the union.

CWA and dozens of House Democrats are urging the Federal Communications Commission to impose job-protection conditions on the proposed T-Mobile-MetroPCS merger.

The Flight Attendants Union Coalition, representing nearly 90,000 Flight Attendants at carriers nationwide, condemned the Transportation Security Administration?s recent decision to allow knives and other dangerous objects into the aircraft cabin, relaxing an over decade long ban.