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CWA has won a round in the fight to safeguard retiree health care at Windstream. Windstream is restoring health benefits to about 140 retirees who had worked at the company's former GTE properties in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The retirees, represented by CWA Local 6171, are among the 3,000 Windstream retirees affected by the company's plan to terminate retiree health care in July.

Three months after Dish Network workers voted 25-19 for CWA representation at the Farmers Branch, Tex., facility, the full National Labor Relations Board finally certified the election. The workers are represented by CWA Local 6171.

Just a few weeks after 309 workers at AT&T Mobility in Indiana won CWA representation, more than two-thirds have signed up as members and nearly half have joined CWA-COPE.

In a huge vote, CWA members at Verizon West ratified a three-year contract that increases wages by 8.25 percent and holds the line against health care cost-shifting for 5,500 workers in California.

At a field hearing on media ownership in Palo Alto, Calif., NABET-CWA President Jim Joyce urged the FCC to regulate the newest forms of consolidation of TV stations that are costing hundreds of TV station workers their jobs and result in fewer voices covering the news.