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Determined to bring the same energy to bargaining with AT&T that their members brought to the 2008 political campaigns, local CWA leaders from across the country met this week in Dallas to prepare for talks with the telecom giant beginning in early 2009.

Even with the election of the most pro-worker president and Congress in decades, passage of the Employee Free Choice Act faces strong obstacles and will not become law unless labor mobilizes as it hasn’t in years, CWA leaders stated.

CWA has joined the Alliance for Digital Equality and will work with other members of the coalition to expand access to true high speed Internet networks for underserved consumers in urban communities across the nation.

In Georgia, CWAers and the entire union movement are turning out to show their support for Jim Martin, the candidate for the U.S. Senate who supports working families.

The Northwest-Delta merger's impact on flight attendants' bargaining rights and jobs in Minnesota was explored in hearings this week before the Minnesota state legislature. "Without the protections of our collective bargaining rights, it is likely that management will drive down wages, benefits, work rules and eliminate jobs altogether," AFA-CWA Northwest flight attendant Rene Foss told the legislature's local government and metropolitan affairs committee.