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The CWA National Women's Conference, featuring a unique mix of presentations to learn from the past and plan for the future, is scheduled Aug. 21-23 at Chicago's Drake Hotel.

Are your local TV stations laying off workers and filling newscasts with canned stories from a central location, perhaps many states away? If so, are they violating the terms of their public licenses?

As flame-throwing governors and lawmakers in other states sucked up all the media oxygen, Colorado's GOP-led House thought it could pull a fast one on workers as its 2011 session wound down last month. But CWA helped make sure that didn't happen.

Score another victory for New York's Albany Newspaper Guild: A unanimous National Labor Relations Board says the Times Union newspaper illegally laid off 11 workers in 2009 and broke the law again by declaring impasse in negotiations with the union.

Delta Airlines, under federal investigation for interfering with its flight attendants' AFA-CWA election last year, has extended its disrespect for workers to American troops: The airline was caught this week charging servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan an extra $200 each to bring a fourth bag home.