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CWA and AFA-CWA-represented workers at Piedmont, US Airways and other airlines are playing an important role in Piedmont agents' campaign to get a union.

Despite intense lobbying from the companies for fast-track regulatory approval in Vermont of Verizon's proposed sale of phone lines to FairPoint Communications, the state Public Service Board listened instead to key lawmakers and ruled yesterday that it would hold hearings to examine terms of a revised deal.

Battling a unilateral pension freeze and benefit cutbacks by Idearc Media, CWA is mounting a major grassroots mobilization and corporate campaign against the directory advertising firm, which was spun off from Verizon in 2006 but remains the official publisher of Verizon directories.

In Arkansas, CWAers and other union members have put the Stewards Army to work on the union movement's biggest priority: passing the Employee Free Choice Act. CWA members and union activists met this week in Little Rock with Arkansas Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor to talk about the Employee Free Choice Act and its importance to working people.

Seeking bargaining rights and affordable health care like 39,000 of their CWA-represented co-workers at AT&T Mobility have, over 900 of the company's retail sales workers in Georgia and Kentucky gained CWA representation through majority card check. The American Arbitration Association certified the results from the Kentucky campaign on Jan. 4 and the Georgia campaign on Nov. 27. Overall, there are 326 retail sales workers in Kentucky and 602 in Georgia.