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CWA members and other union activists are ready for this year's round of corporate annual meetings, with news conferences, demonstrations and other actions planned for major CWA employers.

Two of this year's Pulitzer Prize winners at the Wall Street Journal joined other leading reporters in telling Dow Jones shareholders on Wednesday that quality journalism at the paper could be threatened by current bargaining demands to slash salaries and health benefits for the editorial staff.

General Electric is exploiting environmental concerns to sell its energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), but what it isn't telling consumers is that the bulbs are all coming from China while the company slashes investment – and jobs – in the United States.

CWA joined with leading consumer groups this week in a joint filing urging the Federal Communications Commission to maintain rules that prohibit the big cable TV companies from denying "must-have" programming to competitors such as satellite broadcasters and AT&T and Verizon.

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