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IUE-CWA GE Conference Board delegates unanimously recommended ratification of a new four-year agreement reached with General Electric on June 17. The tentative pact, covering about 10,000 workers, delivers a projected 16.1 percent wage increase, significant pension gains, an extra holiday and other improvements.

As the U.S. Senate began debating the Employee Free Choice Act, more than 4,000 union activists turned out in 96-degree heat Tuesday for a Capitol Hill rally to demand that lawmakers pass the bill and begin restoring America's embattled middle class.

AT&T announced this week that it will be bringing back from overseas nearly 650 Tier I DSL technical support jobs and locating them in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, later this year. The jobs are coming back to the United States as part of the agreement CWA reached with AT&T last fall to return the tech support work that had been contracted overseas.

Retired CWA Representative Crystal Roberts, well respected for political mobilization work in Ohio, died on June 15 at age 54.

WashTech-CWA representatives testified before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee last week to urge lawmakers to extend and expand the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act to include tech workers.