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Women's issues in 2012 are once again dominating the headlines and political discourse in the U.S. We must never rest on our laurels or achievements - for if we do, surely there will be efforts to destroy all that we have accomplished.

On the eve of opening bargaining, CWA Telecommunications and Technologies Vice President Ralph Maly, his staff, and our elected bargainers held a National conference call with Local officers, stewards, mobilizers, and activists across the country.

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.