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Hard work by CWA activists was key to getting 26 Democratic members of the House Education and Labor Committee to sign on to a letter calling on Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile USA, to protect and respect workers' rights in the U.S.

Angry about Windstream's decision to eliminate retiree health care, more than 150 active and retired CWAers jammed the company's shareholder meeting in Little Rock, Ark.

E-Z Pass call center workers in Staten Island, N.Y., are getting growing support from New York State elected and public officials in their fight for a fair contact.

CWA and IBEW members leafleted shareholders outside the Verizon annual meeting in Little Rock, stressing that Verizon risks damaging its corporate reputation by looking to use a tax loophole to sell off landlines and backing away from the build-out of high speed broadband.

At a meeting of CWA's new Customer Service Activist Network, local union leaders across CWA sectors came together to talk about the critical problems facing customer service reps: unreasonable sales quotas, monitoring, health problems tied to stress, repetitive motion and headsets, and a general lack of respect.