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Nearly 100 patient care employees at Palo Alto County Hospital in Emmetsburg, Iowa, voted to affiliate with CWA Local 7170, part of an ongoing joint organizing effort with the Operating Engineers, said CWA District 7 Vice President Annie Hill.

A new tentative agreement between CWA and Windstream Communications covering bargaining unit members of the former Valor Communications and Kerrville Telephone companies provides for significant wage hikes, a stronger grievance procedure, and preserves pension benefits for 500 workers.

A federal judge has awarded more than $5 million to the embattled Chinese Daily News workers whose long struggle to try to unionize was met with years of hostility, intimidation and aggressive anti-union tactics.

The facts about John McCain's dismal record on working family issues are spelled out on a new AFL-CIO website, part of which opens like a briefing book titled, "McCain Revealed."

The West Virginia House of Delegates overwhelmingly passed legislation to prevent employers from using captive audience meetings to intimidate workers who want to organize a union. The bill would prohibit employers from requiring employees to attend captive audience meetings on either political or labor-related issues.