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Are you or any member of your local serving as a delegate to the Democratic or Republican conventions this summer? CWA wants to know, and will be featuring some of our political activists in the CWA News during the election season.

Today, thousands of CWA members at hundreds of Verizon worksites throughout the mid-Atlantic and Northeast launched a series of mobilization activities to show support for their bargaining teams and to demonstrate to Verizon that workers are determined to secure a fair contract.

CWA's bargaining team opened negotiations with Qwest Communications in Denver on July 8 for a new agreement covering more than 20,000 workers in 13 states. The current contract expires Aug. 16.

Just two weeks after a huge organizing victory in June, workers at MediaNews-owned newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area were notified of the company's plans to lay off 29 new members of TNG-CWA's Northern California Media Guild including one of the most visible union organizers – campaign co-chair Sara Steffens.

We met with the Company in formal session on Wednesday and Thursday. The tone at the table was very tense.