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IUE-CWA reached a tentative agreement Sept. 1 with the new General Motors that provides baseline security for retirees facing health care, life insurance, and pension losses after GM's bankruptcy.

CWA members at AT&T West overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year agreement at the company by a 3-to-1 margin. The settlement, reached Aug. 9, covers 22,000 CWA-represented workers in California, Nevada and Hawaii.

More than 1,000 congregations across the country are inviting union members to speak this weekend as part of the annual Labor Day "Labor in the Pulpits" program. Over the years, "Labor in the Pulpits" has helped thousands of churches, temples and other congregations focus their Labor Day weekend services on injustice in the workplace and how religious communities can help workers fight for a living wage, health care and the freedom to form unions.

Workers at the progressive website, Truthout.org, joined TNG-CWA in the Guild's first organizing campaign conducted through majority sign up. The 19 workers, scattered across the country, were assisted by Local 36047 in St. Louis.

Pressure from The Newspaper Guild-CWA and other media organizations has led the Pentagon to back off from its policy of vetting journalists to determine if they are sympathetic to U.S. policies in Iraq and Afghanistan.