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The number of CWAers signing on to the Million Member Mobilization for the Employee Free Choice Act jumped nearly 30 percent since the last week as members are recognizing how the legislation will strengthen bargaining power during negotiations with employers.

At a U.S. House hearing focusing on the impact of the proposed Delta-Northwest Airlines merger on employees, AFA-CWA President Patricia Friend cited concerns over possible future job cuts and noted that Delta workers are especially vulnerable without union representation.

Larry Beall, retired staff member and a CWA activist in California for more than 40 years died July 26. He was 75.

"Speed Matters," the name of CWA's campaign to promote high-speed Internet development, has become well-known from the presidential campaign trails to statehouses around the country to Capitol Hill in Washington (www.speedmatters.org).

One IUE-CWA member whose job at a General Electric plant is being moved to China and a second member working for a company that is saving American jobs with green technology will testify Saturday at a Democratic Party platform hearing in Cleveland.