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Contract talks resumed this week between CWA and Verizon Information Services for four days, but CWA bargainers reported frustration at the company's continuing "bait and switch" tactics. No new negotiations are scheduled.

The Calvert Group, a major investment management firm that handles over $10 billion in assets for 400,000 investors, has dropped Comcast from all of its portfolios, citing the cable giant's "workplace practices and labor relations."

It's a happy new year for 2,400 Cingular workers in the continental United States and Hawaii who gained CWA recognition in December and early January.

The announcement by IBM Corp. that it is freezing the pensions of some 120,000 employees is outrageous, even by the "Gilded Age" standard of today's corporate executives, CWA President Larry Cohen declared in a statement Jan. 6.