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In a week marked by the decision of three unions to withdraw from the AFL-CIO, delegates to the AFL-CIO Convention voted for big changes that will strengthen organizing, legislative and political activities and the labor movement.

Adding fuzzy math to its book of tricks, the increasingly worker-hostile National Labor Relations Board has ordered a new election for 150 Chinese Daily News employees who first voted for representation by The Newspaper Guild-CWA in March 2001.

Over a remarkable 60-year career of union activism, Dina George Beaumont has seen a lot of CWA history—including the seminal 1947 Bell System strike that led to the formation of the modern union—and she's made some history as well.

Nearly 400 union members and other citizens turned out for a July 11 forum in Pittsburgh to hear Comcast workers talk about years of struggling to organize and bargain.

Their stories, speakers said, are why the Employee Free Choice Act is essential for all Americans.

Greetings From Iraq. My name is Scott Anderson and I work in the Pomona Yard as a Special Equipment Installer (CWA Local 9588). I am on military leave and here in Iraq as a U.S. Marine.