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Verizon's anti-union tactics and business policies were spotlighted last week by thousands of CWA and IBEW members who held simultaneous rallies in front of the corporation's offices in New York City and Long Beach, Calif.

AFTRA is applauding Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah & Friends XM satellite radio program for being the only XM show to sign a union contract with its on-air talent.

A Denver city councilman and Avaya executive has filed an anti-union "right to work" ballot measure that Colorado voters may decide in November if backers get 70,000 signatures on petitions.

The U.S. Senate's majority support for the Employee Free Choice Act this week shows what unions can and will accomplish in 2009 after America's working families elect a pro-worker president and gain more seats in Congress, CWA President Larry Cohen said.

The UAW last week agreed to a tentative labor pact with Delphi covering about 17,000 members. Meanwhile, IUE-CWA leadership remains in Troy, Mich., where Delphi is headquartered, and continues to bargain on behalf of the remaining 1,500 workers it represents at Delphi.