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As they champion the Employee Free Choice Act in cities, counties and states across the country, union organizers are also helping CWA and the IBEW build a coalition of local and national political leaders who are pressuring Verizon to respect the right of its workers to organize and bargain collectively.

Pressured by the threat of losing their bankruptcy claim, AFA-CWA flight attendants at Northwest Airlines ratified a concessionary contract at the carrier this week by a 51 percent vote.

CWA applauded the Broadband Data Improvement Act, introduced last week by Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-MI), as a significant and necessary step in bringing high speed Internet access to every American.

CWA nurses in New York are building legislative support to stop the state from closing nine hospitals statewide, including three in Buffalo that employ nearly 4,000 members of Local 1168, Nurses United.

CWA and IBEW members, community supporters and local elected officials will rally on June 2 in Burlington, VT., to show strong community opposition to the proposed sale of Verizon's telephone lines to North Carolina-based FairPoint Communications.