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CWA's goals for 2008, set by the Executive Board at a meeting in Washington last week, center on strengthening the union's grassroots political structure and building an Election '08 ground campaign to elect leaders who support passing the Employee Free Choice Act, comprehensive health care reform, bolstering retirement security, and creation of good jobs.

Many of you have been contacting us concerning management's decision to require employees to contact both their supervisors AND Aetna on the third day of all absences.

Responding to objections by IUE-CWA and the Auto Workers to Delphi's proposed management compensation plan, bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain drastically slashed Delphi's proposed $87 million in cash bonuses for executives to $16.5 million.

President Bush has nominated anti-worker NLRB Chairman Robert Battista to another term on the board, just a month after Battista told a joint Senate-House hearing that he doesn't believe the primary purpose of the National Labor Relations Act is to promote collective bargaining.