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Leading economists and 190 Members of Congress agree: the proposed tax on health care benefits is bad public policy that will hurt millions of middle-income and working Americans. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Representative Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) and economists Lawrence Mishel and Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute debunked the myths that supporters have been spreading about the excise tax during a media teleconference Jan. 6.

CWA joined members of Congress and other allies today in a media teleconference to outline concerns about the proposed Verizon-Frontier merger and discuss ways to eliminate a tax loophole that allows Verizon and other companies to sell assets tax-free to smaller companies that end up burdened by debt.

NABET-CWA President John Clark will retire at the end of January, winding up 43 years in the union he joined while working at NBC Radio in New York City. Clark was working as a vacation relief engineer at the radio network when he joined NABET Local 11 in 1967 (now NABET-CWA Local 51011.)

United Airlines' failure to negotiate a new contract with AFA-CWA flight attendants on time provoked a worldwide protest today by thousands of flight attendants at airports across the United States, Europe and Asia. In 2002, United flight attendants were forced to take steep cuts in pay during United's bankruptcy. Management also terminated workers' pensions, cut retiree health care and eroded working conditions. Those cuts were scheduled to end on Jan. 7, when the contract became amendable.

Attached is a series of Questions and Answers that have been raised concerning the offer you received based on a Memorandum negotiated by the CWA and Alcatel-Lucent. As other questions arise, we will post them on this site so you can make the most informed decision possible. Please let your Local representative know so, if they cannot answer your questions themselves, they can forward them to us.