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The flight crew heroes of US Airways Flight 1549 include three AFA-CWA flight attendants who helped get the plane's 150 passengers to safety in less than two minutes after the emergency landing in the icy cold Hudson River in New York City last week.

For AT&T technicians in Oakland and Richmond in northern California, work was getting dangerous. Gang members broke into their trucks while technicians worked just yards away. Some workers were assaulted. A year ago, a technician who witnessed a shooting was stalked and threatened by a gang.

Bargaining begins today in Richmond, Va., for a new contract covering 20,000 CWA members at AT&T Mobility. The "Orange Contract" covers workers in Districts 1, 2, 4, 9 and 13.

A majority of flight attendants at Lynx Aviation voted by a 2-1 margin this week for representation by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. The election vote, conducted by the National Mediation Board (NMB), showed that 55 of the 87 eligible Lynx flight attendants voted for AFA-CWA despite an aggressive anti-union campaign by management.