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As you all know, we will be electing a bargaining committee composed of five (5) members for the AT&T bargaining unit at this year’s Convention (June 23-25, 2008 Las Vegas, Nevada). The positions will be:

We have just received the attached VTP offer from AT&T.

CWA and AFA-CWA-represented workers at Piedmont, US Airways and other airlines are playing an important role in Piedmont agents' campaign to get a union.

Despite intense lobbying from the companies for fast-track regulatory approval in Vermont of Verizon's proposed sale of phone lines to FairPoint Communications, the state Public Service Board listened instead to key lawmakers and ruled yesterday that it would hold hearings to examine terms of a revised deal.

Battling a unilateral pension freeze and benefit cutbacks by Idearc Media, CWA is mounting a major grassroots mobilization and corporate campaign against the directory advertising firm, which was spun off from Verizon in 2006 but remains the official publisher of Verizon directories.