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CWA is forming a support group for members, friends and families affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.

More than 200 CWA and IBEW members rallied in Burlington, Vt., on June 2 to tell Vermont's Public Service Board that Verizon's proposed sale of its landlines to FairPoint Communications would leave northern New England stranded with outmoded telecommunications. Verizon has proposed selling its landlines in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont for $2.72 billion.

About 50 members of CWA Locals 1101 and 1108, Jobs with Justice and the United Electrical Workers rallied outside the annual meeting of DirecTV in New York City to protest the company's refusal to bargain a fair contract with technicians and other workers at the company as well as its latest move to shift workers' jobs in several states to contractors.

Eligible AFA-CWA flight attendants at Northwest Airlines will receive a cash payment and pension contribution worth about $14,500 within the next two to three weeks. The funds will be distributed as the result of the union's sale of a $182 million equity claim against Northwest that was preserved in their recently ratified contract.

CWA President Larry Cohen joined NABET leaders at a bargaining session with ABC last week in Chicago, urging the network to see the union as a valuable partner that deserves respect and good-faith bargaining.