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CWA is mounting a major campaign against the company that publishes Verizon telephone directories in response to its demands for a unilateral pension freeze and benefit cuts affecting 700 CWA and IBEW members in New England and upstate New York.

NABET-CWA members nationwide have ratified a new four-year contract with Disney ABC after months of tough, tense bargaining and an overwhelming vote to authorize a strike if necessary. The pact covers 2,500 technicians, camera operators, news writers and other employees.

In a big victory for consumers in Virginia, efforts by CWA's Stewards Army have forced Verizon to drop its campaign to get the state legislature to end regulation of the sale of a telephone company.

Seeking the same bargaining rights and affordable health care that 39,000 of their CWA-represented co-workers at AT&T Mobility enjoy, more than 900 of the company's retail sale workers in Georgia and Kentucky have joined the union through a majority card-check campaign.

A little over a year and a half since gaining collective bargaining rights in June 2006, Jackson, Mississippi's 1,200 city employees achieved another milepost in their remarkable struggle to organize and improve their jobs, negotiating their first union contract with the city.