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A federal judge has awarded more than $5 million to the embattled Chinese Daily News workers whose long struggle to try to unionize was met with years of hostility, intimidation and aggressive anti-union tactics.

A new tentative agreement between CWA and Windstream Communications covering bargaining unit members of the former Valor Communications and Kerrville Telephone companies provides for significant wage hikes, a stronger grievance procedure, and preserves pension benefits for 500 workers.

Nearly 100 patient care employees at Palo Alto County Hospital in Emmetsburg, Iowa, voted to affiliate with CWA Local 7170, part of an ongoing joint organizing effort with the Operating Engineers, said CWA District 7 Vice President Annie Hill.

Four hundred activists from CWA District 1 have signed the first of a planned 1 million postcards that will tell a new president and Congress in January that working families across America want them to immediately enact the Employee Free Choice Act. CWAers were photographed as they signed, and their pictures will be posted online at a special campaign website.

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