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A new tentative agreement between CWA and Wind-stream Communications covering bargaining unit members of the former Valor Communications and Kerrville Telephone companies provides for significant wage hikes and

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.

A tentative agreement was reached covering about 1,800 CWA-represented workers at AT&T Internet Services in Districts 3, 4, 6 and 9. A number of improvements were achieved over the previous tentative settlement negotiated last summer.

Final approval by the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission in February permits the sale of Verizon Communications operations in northern New England to FairPoint Communications to go forward — but the campaign waged by CWA, the IBEW and political allies throughout the three states resulted i

CWA members in Texas unanimously ratified a new three-year agreement with AT&T Video Services that provides job upgrades, wage increases, improvements to the company's health care proposal and other gains.