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AT&T announced this week that it will be bringing back from overseas nearly 650 Tier I DSL technical support jobs and locating them in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, later this year. The jobs are coming back to the United States as part of the agreement CWA reached with AT&T last fall to return the tech support work that had been contracted overseas.

As the U.S. Senate began debating the Employee Free Choice Act, more than 4,000 union activists turned out in 96-degree heat Tuesday for a Capitol Hill rally to demand that lawmakers pass the bill and begin restoring America's embattled middle class.

IUE-CWA GE Conference Board delegates unanimously recommended ratification of a new four-year agreement reached with General Electric on June 17. The tentative pact, covering about 10,000 workers, delivers a projected 16.1 percent wage increase, significant pension gains, an extra holiday and other improvements.

Meetings of the Joint Retiree Healthcare Committee to negotiate possible changes to the Retiree healthcare plan design and/or healthcare premiums, were initiated in March 2007 and were to conclude no later than June 15, 2007.

Washington, D.C. – Communications Workers of America Vice President Ralph Maly blasted Alcatel Lucent's proposed plan to close the North Andover, Mass., facility (also known as Merrimack Valley) unless union-represented workers find and agree to accept $6.6 million in cost cutting and adjustments.