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****Updated with pictures from meeting**** I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all the Local Officers, members and retirees who attended the special Lucent shareholders meeting in Wilmington, Delaware. As I stated in my speech (see below) to the shareholders, it was a sea of red of members and retirees who came to voice their concerns over the direction Lucent was taking with our jobs, healthcare, and pensions.

CWA members and retirees at Lucent Technologies are keeping up their fight to stop the company from carrying out cuts in jobs, health care and other benefits in the wake of the merger with French-owned Alcatel.

CWA members who worked alongside police and firefighters in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack are among thousands of rescue and recovery workers who are suffering persistent respiratory and other health problems five years later.

A local congressman and a newspaper columnist have weighed in on Local 3220's fight for a first contract with Frontier Communications in Statesboro, Ga., and more than 2,000 customers and union supporters have participated in an e-activist campaign in response to leafleting by CWA's Frontier locals.