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CWA members and retirees made a huge difference in key political races last month, especially in Kentucky, Virginia and New Jersey where the union played a lead role in state campaigns.

In a victory worthy of David vs. Goliath, a small unit of PBS workers in Harrisburg, Pa., stood up to a management team whose contract demands could have spelled the end of their union.

CWA Local 2205 members at the Verizon FiOS Fiber Solutions Center in Hampton Va., probably figured Thanksgiving Day would be just another long shift in two years of weeks packed with forced overtime.

In a groundbreaking decision, an arbitrator in Texas has ruled that Windstream Communications must abide by a neutrality and expedited election agreement CWA had with parent company Valor prior to a corporate spin off in 2006.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Broadband Census of America Act of 2007, legislation strongly pushed by CWA that calls for mapping broadband speeds and access throughout the nation.