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CWA reached tentative agreements with Avaya and Optical Fiber Solutions that protect health care benefits for active and retired workers, increase wages and meet other critical bargaining goals.

With talks still stalled two months after their contract expired, NABET-CWA members at NBC-Universal are turning up the heat and asking viewers in four major cities to turn off NBC and its local stations where members work.

IUE-CWA has filed a petition on behalf of thousands of General Motors' retirees to protect their health and life insurance benefits following the company's bankruptcy filing this week.

Pay and health care were among the issues that former Dobson Communications technicians at AT&T Mobility in Michigan cited as a big part of their decision to join CWA through majority sign up. CWA District 4 Vice President Seth Rosen said the wage and benefit package CWA had negotiated at Mobility was a big factor for the Michigan technicians.

Two Washington Post reporters have won TNG-CWA's 2008 Heywood Broun Award for a seven-part series that revealed how city landlords were driving tenants out of rent-controlled apartments by refusing repairs and forcing families to live without heat, water or electricity.