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The American flag has become a casualty of Verizon Business' war on workers' rights. Verizon Business technician and Air National Guardsman Terry Skiest has an American flag and a Massachusetts state flag that have flown in battle zones with him in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he proudly displayed them outside his work cubicle in Acton, Mass.

City buses rolled out of parking garages in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1 with a message for city leaders and residents -- "This bus isn't the only thing passing you by. Verizon is bringing high-speed Internet to the suburbs: Not to D.C." While Verizon has been advertising its high-speed FiOS network on D.C. airwaves, plans to actually install high-speed Internet in the city are far from the drawing board, and CWA and other groups are calling on city council members to push back.

CWA this week urged Pennsylvania legislators to approve the Consumer Choice Cable Franchising and High-Speed Broadband Promotion Act, H.B 1490, to encourage the buildout of true high speed Internet networks and end the current cable monopoly in the state.

A tentative contract between Cincinnati Bell and CWA Locals 4400 and 4401 preserves the jobs of 440 call center service reps whose jobs had been targeted for outsourcing, provides for returning previously outsourced jobs, and protects health benefits.

Thanks to cooperative efforts between General Motors and IUE-CWA to make production more efficient, GM will invest $69 million in its DMAX diesel engine plant in Morraine, Ohio. The investment will preserve more than 1,000 manufacturing jobs.