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CWA is joining the Steelworkers, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council as part of the Blue Green Alliance that is working to create good "green" jobs that help solve the problems of global warming.

With just 26 days of work left until Election Day, CWA has designated next week - Oct. 13-17 - as CWA National Worksite Action Week to bring extra focus to the election and the importance of the outcome for union members and the middle class. "People like to feel part of something bigger and having a single action that we can work on collectively is one way to foster that feeling," said Executive Vice President Annie Hill, who heads up CWA's Election 2008 efforts.

CWA President Larry Cohen met online with members across the country on Wednesday to answer a wide range of questions about the election, the economy, workers rights, outsourcing, health care, retirement security and the future of the union movement.

Rejecting the efforts of IUE-CWA to negotiate a way to save a General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, the company has announced it will shut down the plant and lay off the final 1,400 workers two days before Christmas.

Cards from CWAers signing on to the Million Member Mobilization for Employee Free Choice neared 100,000 as of Oct. 6, with number of supporters reaching 97,842.