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Battling a unilateral pension freeze and benefit cutbacks by Idearc Media, CWA is mounting a major grassroots mobilization and corporate campaign against the directory advertising firm, which was spun off from Verizon in 2006 but remains the official publisher of Verizon directories.

A new tentative agreement between CWA and Wind-stream Communications covering bargaining unit members of the former Valor Communications and Kerrville Telephone companies provides for significant wage hikes and

This spring, CWA and Germany's largest telecom union, Ver.di, will launch an organization, "TU," to help organize 15,000 workers at T-Mobile, the nation's third largest wireless company behind AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless.

Hundreds of coworkers and other supporters are backing an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran whose Verizon Business bosses stripped his cubicle of an American flag that he flew outside his tents while serving his country.