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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.

Oregon is about to become the latest state to give public workers the freedom to form unions through card check.