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Iowa Governor Chet Culver is the latest public official to personally urge Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon's CEO and President, to respect its employees' organizing rights. In a letter to the corporate executive, Culver, a Democrat and son of the former U.S. Senator John Culver, urged Seidenberg to consider accepting card check sign up as a means for employees to organize.

This week's Auto Workers strike against General Motors caused a postponement in talks that were set to begin Tuesday on behalf of 2,300 members of IUE-CWA at the Moraine, Ohio, GM plant.

Navor Hernandez, a member of CWA Local 6132, was honored by AT&T for his bravery and quick action that saved a man from a burning van.

Showing growing opposition to the proposed sale of Verizon landlines to FairPoint Communications, a delegation including CWA Local 1400 Steward Cliff Knapp delivered more than 5,000 postcards to the governor of Maine at his office in Augusta on Sept. 25 asking him to oppose the sale.

AFA-CWA members have sent more than 5,000 letters and e-mails to members of Congress to push for a bill that would give flight attendants' coverage under the Family and Medical Leave Act.