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After nine months at the bargaining table, NABET-CWA has reached a tentative four-year contract with ABC-Disney that preserves members' pensions and blocks many other givebacks the network was demanding.

A last minute scramble by Verizon Communications – and nearly half a billion dollars in concessions from Verizon and FairPoint Commuications – couldn’t stampede Maine regulators into accepting a settlement without additional review.

An unprecedented global forum brought 200 union leaders from around the world to Washington, D.C., for strategy sessions on how to strengthen global bargaining and organizing rights. Over the two-day conference, union leaders shared information on the status of labor in their countries and agreed to chart improved and declining collective bargaining density, especially as it is linked to political action.

Voice, data, video and wireless – it's a far different AT&T than in 1984, when a court-ordered divestiture broke up the telephone system. Now AT&T is the largest unionized private sector employer in the country.

On December 12, CWA Vice President Chris Shelton, District 1, officially notified Verizon Communications that CWA was breaking off early negotiations on behalf of all CWA and IBEW teams.