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In Arkansas, CWAers and other union members have put the Stewards Army to work on the union movement's biggest priority: passing the Employee Free Choice Act. CWA members and union activists met this week in Little Rock with Arkansas Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor to talk about the Employee Free Choice Act and its importance to working people.

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.

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.

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.

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.