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CWAers in District 3 ratified a new three-year agreement covering 35,000 CWA-represented workers at AT&T Southeast, the BellSouth Telecommunications unit. The settlement was ratified by a 65 percent vote.

After three years with no raises and new threats of job and benefit cuts, state workers in Mississippi are demanding that legislators balance the budget without putting employees and the people they serve in jeopardy.

CWA is standing with teachers and education staff at Rhode Island's Central Falls High School as they fight to get back to the negotiating table and after being fired last month.

An administrative law judge recommended that the Illinois Commerce Commission reject the proposed merger of Frontier Communications and Verizon Communications. Verizon wants to sell its landlines in 14 states to Frontier in a deal that CWA says would be a disaster for consumers, workers and quality service.

An AFA-CWA campaign song and music video written by Minneapolis-St. Paul-based Northwest flight attendant Jarrod Anderson is a big hit with flight attendants at Delta and Northwest airlines.