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AFA-CWA flight attendants picketed the UAL Corp. – United Airlines – annual meeting in Chicago May 10 to protest the excessive $40 million compensation package paid to CEO Glenn Tilton.

CWA has joined with UNI Telecom and other unions around the globe in condemning Vodafone's South African subsidiary, Vodacom, for refusing to recognize its workers' union in violation of the law.

In the wake of a nine-month lockout at the Toledo Blade newspaper in Ohio, CWA leaders are asking locals to adopt a family to help 215 workers who have lost their health insurance.

Nurses stormed Capitol Hill this week to push Congress to overturn the decision by the National Labor Relations Board to allow employers to reclassify many nurses – and potentially millions of other workers – as supervisors, denying them their union rights.

With Gov. Martin O'Malley's signature on the bill, Maryland this week became the first state to require government contractors to pay their employees a living wage -- $8.50 an hour in rural counties and $11.30 an hour in urban areas.