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Claiming it wants to "protect the integrity" of the Family and Medical Leave Act, a coalition of business groups calling itself the National Coalition to Protect Family Leave has asked the Labor Department to make changes in the legislation so the law is "available to those employees Congress intended to cover."

Alcatel Lucent workers marched through the streets of Paris this week in a continuing worldwide protest by workers against the company's plan to cut 12,500 jobs.

Flight attendants at US Airways and America West Airlines, members of AFA-CWA, picketed outside US Airways? corporate headquarters in Tempe, Ariz., this week, expressing their frustration over the slow pace of contract negotiations.

About 600 Local 1170 members working for Frontier Telephone of Rochester, N.Y., will see a 2-percent wage increase and an annual 4.5 percent performance bonus in each of the three years of their new tentative contract settlement – and keep their fully paid health benefits.

Cingular Wireless workers in Puerto Rico, members of Local 3010, ratified a new 4-year contract that improves wages and holidays and establishes a Strategic Alliance Committee to address issues important to the members between bargaining.