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CWA members and members of other AFL-CIO unions can now receive a 10 percent discount on AT&T wireless phone service, along with a $50 savings on new phones and accessories when they sign up for service through Oct. 31, 2007. (The union member discount previously was 5 percent.)

Determined to keep one of the country's best newspapers from falling into the hands of tabloid king and Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, reporters at the Wall Street Journal staged a half-day absence last week and continue to be outspoken in their opposition.

A union of taxi drivers who organized four years ago with the assistance of CWA has affiliated with CWA Local 7777 to increase their clout with local and state authorities who regulate operators in the cutthroat industry.

Corporations that give executives lavish retirement plans would have to provide a guaranteed, defined benefit pension for their other employees under a CWA-supported Senate bill (S.1725) that aims to fix problems created by the federal Pension Protection Act of 2006.

The U.S. Senate's majority support for the Employee Free Choice Act this week shows what unions can and will accomplish in 2009 after America's working families elect a pro-worker president and gain more seats in Congress, CWA President Larry Cohen said.