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If your local hasn't yet entered CWA's annual newsletter contest, you need to act fast: Entries need to be sent overnight mail to arrive at headquarters no later than Tuesday morning, June 3.

Get the latest news, photos/artwork, tools & tips at The Source, CWA's website for local union communicators. Launched last October, The Source is providing union editors, officers, and organizers with regularly updated news, photos, and tools to improve and enhance their communications with CWA members.

Like their counterparts in the United States, CWA in Canada and other Canadian unions say the growth of Big Media is costing jobs and curtailing information, and they're demanding that the government put on the brakes.

Bargaining gets underway June 3 for the national health care plan covering more than 40,000 workers at AT&T Mobility. The settlement negotiated in 2004 expires June 30.

Delta Airlines flight attendants' fight for union representation fell short this week in the May 28 ballot count at the National Mediation Board, but management's campaign of voter suppression and intimidation has not extinguished the workers' continuing desire to get a union.