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"Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is essential to setting a political agenda that benefits working Americans after the 2008 elections," CWA President Larry Cohen said in an address to more than 1,000 participants at the "Take Back America" conference in Washington, D.C., this week.

Canadian members of CWA talk about their country's health care system and how it compares with the costly system in the United States in a video that the Canadian Media Guild produced for last year's CWA convention in Toronto.

CWA is condemning Western Union Financial Services Inc., for its announced plans to close three facilities in Missouri and Texas and shift that work to non-union and overseas operations.

CWA's Speed Matters website, a critical part of the union's campaign to push for affordable high-speed internet access nationwide, has been honored by two organizations with awards for its content, design and usefulness. The site was built with funds from CWA's Speed Matters Strategic Industry Fund.

Frank S. Wentzel, retired assistant to two District 13 vice presidents, who helped facilitate the merger of the independent Federation of Telephone Workers of Pennsylvania into CWA, died March 6 at age 84.