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The Newspaper Guild-CWA celebrated the best in journalism Wednesday night at the annual Freedom Fund Award banquet, whose honorees included a BBC journalist who was held hostage in the Gaza Strip for four months and Washington Post reporters who exposed abusive conditions at Walter Reed Medical Center.

Workers eager for a union at the San Francisco Bay Area's largest newspaper chain will cast ballots June 13 under an agreement reached with MediaNews Group management.

With unprecedented bipartisan support from Republicans and Democrats, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly, 402 to 9, to approve AFA-CWA-supported legislation that will enable flight attendants and pilots to be eligible for coverage under the landmark Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

More than 300 workers gained CWA representation last week during separate organizing victories in New England, New York and California.

The strategic alliance established by CWA, the United Auto Workers, the United Steel Workers and the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers already is showing results from the unions’ joint political actions with more plans underway to carry out a successful strategy for Election 2008.