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AFA-CWA filed a federal lawsuit against Delta Air Lines to block the company from unilaterally using a management seniority integration process as a wedge issue to divide Delta and Northwest flight attendants and undermine the union before employees of the newly combined airline can vote on union representation.

With millions of jobs at stake in the U.S. auto and related industries – including CWA jobs in parts manufacturing and news media, which depends on billions of dollars in auto dealer advertising – CWA is urging members to contact members of Congress to urge support for an emergency assistance package for the automakers.

A member of the President-elect's transition team said the Employee Free Choice Act is a necessary response to the "worst economic crisis in our lifetime." The speaker, Thomas Kochan, co-director of MIT's Institute of Technology Workplace Center and Institute for Work and Employment Research, said the legislation was the "necessary first step" to reducing the highly adversarial roles of labor and management and creating an "integrated, progressive labor policy coordinated with economic policy."

More than 500 journalists and other workers at Associated Press have called on the company to reverse course in contract talks and drop its bargaining proposals that threaten quality journalism.

An arbitration ruling on health care benefits for 40,000 CWA members at AT&T Mobility has been postponed until Dec. 12.