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The Republican agenda to kill Medicare, trample workers' rights and cut millionaires' taxes at the expense of everyone else took a well-earned beating in upstate New York on Tuesday, as a Democrat comfortably won the special election for a U.S. House seat the GOP has held for generations.

As nationwide bargaining began this week for a new GE contract, IUE-CWA members and their negotiating team put management on notice that they expect employees to share in the company's increased profitability and performance.

On Capitol Hill this week, CWA President Larry Cohen met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and Democratic members of the California delegation on how the AT&T/T-Mobile merger will benefit workers and consumers.

In their high-energy campaign to overturn Ohio's new law stripping collective bargaining rights from public workers, broad coalitions of union members and diverse allies have gathered more than 214,000 petition signatures in just a month.

Adding to an impressive series of legal victories for TNG-CWA members at the Times Union in Albany, N.Y., a federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's decision regarding the newspaper's abrupt end to payroll deduction of union dues.