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CWA members and other union activists are ready for this year's round of corporate annual meetings, with news conferences, demonstrations and other actions planned for major CWA employers.

While Verizon president and chief operating officer Dennis Strigl addressed telecom industry execs at Bank of America's Media, Telecommunications and Entertainment Conference in New York City on March 29, some 200 CWA members at Verizon core picketed on the outside, chanting "Tear Down the Wall."

Our opponents are pulling out all the stops and sparing no expense to bully lawmakers, misinform the public, and oppose free choice for workers. We all should expect more of the same as the debate on the Employee Free Choice Act continues in the Senate (bill S. 1041).

The AFL-CIO has urged Congress to block a free trade pact with Colombia until that country shows progress in prosecuting paramilitary death squads responsible for the murders of some 4,000 trade union officers since the 1980s.

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