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With the election just seven weeks away, CWA's website for communicators, the Source, is being updated with campaign- and issue-related materials. This week there are four new political handouts highlighting the positions of Barack Obama and John McCain on key CWA issues affecting women, retirees and veterans. There are also some photos sent in by CWA members who hosted Obama-Biden parties on Aug. 28.

You didn't hear a peep from the Republican convention about unemployment, even though Senator's McCain's speech came on the very day that the government announced the worst jobless rate in five years – 6.1 percent for August, when businesses cut 84,000 net jobs.

Friday we received the attached leaflet and petition from the French Trade Unions that represent Alcatel-Lucent.

Do you have family, friends and coworkers who still don't grasp the vast gulf between Barack Obama and John McCain on health care reform? Urge them to play CWA's new online game that shows players exactly where the candidates stand.

President Bush's contempt for workers and unions is as strong as ever in his waning White House days, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that he is considering an executive order that would bar government contractors from allowing workers to organize through majority card check authorization.