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The CWA Executive Board voted to designate Executive Vice President Jeff Rechenbach to head the new National Telecom Office as the Board continues to review CWA's structure in telecom and other sectors in keeping with the mandate in Ready for the Future.

Local leaders and activists came to Washington for three major conferences over the past week to help build a political movement for change focused on CWA's top strategic issues – workers' rights and protecting jobs, health care and retirement security.

CWA members and locals in Virginia are putting the Stewards Army to work in a big way to block Verizon's attempt to eliminate all state government oversight of the sale or transfer of telephone company assets.

The company has notified us of their position regarding term employee participation in IMF.

Recently CWA, IBEW, and Avaya Oversight Committee members met to discuss several serious issues around the upcoming certification payout.