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Backed by a solid majority of workers who want a voice and bargaining rights, Delta Air Lines flight attendants filed for AFA-CWA representation with the National Mediation Board on Feb. 14. The campaign began in late 2006, with a small, dedicated group of flight attendants who started collecting signatures to petition for a union representation election.

CWA President Larry Cohen and other members of a labor fact-finding delegation visiting Colombia this week deplored workers' rights abuses and continuing violence against unionists in the country in speaking to reporters in Bogota on Wednesday.

An army of CWA health care activists is about to fan out across the country to build an even bigger movement of union members, local executive boards and congressional candidates in at least 121 targeted districts who will fight for guaranteed, affordable health care for all.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - The bargaining team met today in session. CWA gave the company counter proposals on a number of issues which the company rejected. The company then responded on a number of data requests.

CWA has been advised that a laptop computer was stolen from an employee of Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of NJ on 1/5/08.