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Members are now able to post comments on the CWA Diversity proposal at the Ready for the Future website (www.cwa-union.org/future -- click on Diversity Committee).

U.S. senators will get an earful from CWA members next week about the critical need for Employee Free Choice Act, including the fact that the organizing and bargaining rights bill would likely bring health benefits to more than 3.5 million uninsured Americans.

On May 5th, 2007, Phillip Hodges, a member of CWA Local 4100 and a Construction and Special Services (CSS) Technician employed by at&t, suffered fatal injuries when he fell from a ladder while performing work on an outdoor residential telecommunications cable/strand. After hearing Brother Hodges fall to the ground, the customer contacted emergency medical services. In turn, Phillip was taken to Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit.

Last January, they had demonstrated outside the state capital over their low salaries – and this week 30 Local 2055 members in Charleston, W.Va. rallied at the same spot to thank lawmakers and the governor for boosting pay for corrections officers by $2,000 with the prospect of another $3,000 the next two years.

As part of the AFL-CIO's broadest effort ever to involve union members in the process of endorsing a presidential candidate, the federation has set up an interactive website that examines each candidate's stand on working family issues.