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To strengthen CWA in a tough economy that has cost jobs and members, convention delegates on Tuesday adopted a resolution to redistribute, for two years, part of the income generated by the union's Strategic Industry Fund.

From protecting Medicare to opposing the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, stopping voter suppression and battling state attacks on workers' rights, resolutions that CWA convention delegates passed this week had a central theme: Taking action and continuing to build a broad-based movement to fight back.

CWA's highest honor, the President's Annual Award, was presented this year to District 2-13 and District 3 for their exhaustive efforts over 10 years to organize more than 3,000 passenger service agents at Piedmont Airlines.

In a critical time for raising funds to fight back against attacks on working families, Districts 1 and 6 were honored this week for their members' CWA Political Action contributions, a collective $1.8 million over the past year.

With bargainers away from the table until after the CWA convention, members have taken to the streets, parking lots, and offices?standing, sitting, walking, telling our story to the general public and sending a message to the company.