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Honolulu Advertiser workers fighting for a fair contract at their Gannett-owned newspaper made union history last week when reporters staged what's believed to be the country's first "blog strike."

Final approval by the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission permits the sale of Verizon Communications operations in northern New England to FairPoint Communications to go forward, but the campaign waged by CWA, the IBEW and elected officials and community groups throughout the three states resulted in real improvements in the final deal that will help support quality service.

CWA negotiators reached a tentative agreement covering 9,000 AT&T Mobility workers in District 6 that upgrades more than 5,000 customer service jobs, increases pay across the board and sets up committees to resolve retail scheduling and other issues, among other gains.

We met yesterday, Tuesday, February 26th as well as today Wednesday for bargaining. CWA has a number of open data requests (a data request is an information request on policy, practice or cost associated with benefits, center workings and break downs of employee status, etc.)