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About 125 CWA members and leaders from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and other states, are a big part of this week's Selma to Montgomery, Ala., march and rally.

CWA reached a tentative agreement with AT&T Mobility covering 9,300 workers in District 6 ? Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas. The tentative settlement provides wage increases and other contract improvements, plus the return of at least 2,000 jobs over the four year agreement.

"Retirement Heist" is a new book by Ellen Schultz, a former investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal. She carefully describes how companies plunder and wring profits from the defined benefit pension plans of American workers. It's required reading for union leaders engaged in bargaining with the country's biggest corporations.

Legislation to keep call center jobs here in the U.S. now has 75 co-sponsors, with more members of Congress expected to sign on in the next few weeks.

CWA called on the Federal Communications Commission to "stop the clock" on its consideration of the Verizon Wireless/cable company spectrum deal until the parties involved provide complete information about their commercial agreements.