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AFTRA is applauding Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah & Friends XM satellite radio program for being the only XM show to sign a union contract with its on-air talent.

A Denver city councilman and Avaya executive has filed an anti-union "right to work" ballot measure that Colorado voters may decide in November if backers get 70,000 signatures on petitions.

The U.S. Senate's majority support for the Employee Free Choice Act this week shows what unions can and will accomplish in 2009 after America's working families elect a pro-worker president and gain more seats in Congress, CWA President Larry Cohen said.

IUE-CWA members this week voted to ratify their new four-year contract with General Electric with 79 percent approving the agreement, which boosts wages by 16 percent and provides significant pension increases for the 10,000 workers.

The UAW last week agreed to a tentative labor pact with Delphi covering about 17,000 members. Meanwhile, IUE-CWA leadership remains in Troy, Mich., where Delphi is headquartered, and continues to bargain on behalf of the remaining 1,500 workers it represents at Delphi.