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Budget Rent-A-Car workers at Boston's Logan Airport, members of IUE-CWA Local 81201, have ratified a hard-won first contract that improves wages and benefits and sets up a grievance procedure with arbitration.

More than 500 German workers descended on Deutsche Telekom?s global shareholders? meeting in Cologne last Thursday to demand that the company respect the right of its American T-Mobile employees to unionize and bargain collectively.

A hugely successful phone bank helped Missouri CWAers send lawmakers home empty-handed last Friday, the end of a legislative session that began with the Republican majority pledging to pass a laundry list of anti-union, anti-worker bills.

The voting process is underway in the critical union representation election for nearly 25,000 Flight Attendants at United, Continental and Continental Micronesia.

The National Mediation Board mailed ballots to eligible workers Tuesday. Voting ends June 29, when the NMB will count the ballots and announce the results.

CWA has filed charges with the Public Employment Relations Commission in New Jersey over Gov. Chris Christie's refusal to bargain over public employee health care.

New Jersey's largest public worker union, CWA is bargaining for a new agreement covering 40,000 state workers. Their current contract expires June 30.