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Imogene Wood, a career telephone worker who was a founding officer of the national CWA Retired Members' Council, died of cancer Oct. 23 at a Washington, D.C., hospital. She was 93.

Seven major institutional investors that hold more that $790 million in Verizon Communications stock pressed Verizon to implement the shareholder proposal on executive compensation that received a majority vote at the 2007 annual meeting.

One of the best possible ways to make working America's voice heard loud and clear is for union members to be delegates to the Democratic or Republican national conventions in 2008.

In a victory worthy of David vs. Goliath status, a small unit of PBS workers in Harrisburg, Pa., stood up to a management team whose contract demands could have spelled the end of their union.

CWA members in four districts rallied, handbilled and made management see red on Oct. 18 in support of bargaining on behalf of workers in AT&T's Internet Services and Video Services divisions. The Internet DSL tech support workers and Video field technicians have been without a contract since late summer.