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AT&T Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre announced today at the company's annual meeting an ad hoc pension increase for certain retirees.

The global union federation Union Network International (UNI) and member unions, including CWA, are threatening to pull all investment from the U.S. private equity group Blackstone, in protest over the outsourcing of thousands of jobs at Deutsche Telecom.

Retired CWA Representative James Dennis Jr. died April 23 of cancer at age 60.

CWA flight attendants are co-sponsoring a Transportation Day of Action on May 17 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to send elected leaders the message that, "We've had enough – enough of pension terminations, working without health care, and enough American jobs being sent overseas," said AFA-CWA President Pat Friend.

The CWA-supported Medicare for All Act was re-introduced in Congress on April 25 by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Representative John Dingell (D-Mich.). In a statement this week, the union called it an important step toward comprehensive reform of our health care system.