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Whether volunteering as drivers at campaign stops, helping shape the Democratic platform or serving as delegates, alternates or committee members at next week's convention in Boston, CWAers are an indispensable part of the Kerry-Edwards campaign for the White House.

Supported by nationwide mobilization, Local 6171 kicked off bargaining with CenturyTel in quest of improvements in wages, health care, pensions and job security.

CWA Local 1365 President Gary Nilsson began a hunger strike on July 1 to publicize Lucent's outsourcing of thousands of jobs and to protest Lucent's refusal to offer the same negotiated financial and pension package to all workers laid off at the plant.

WashTech research study reveals state governments increasingly are contracting with foreign outsourcing firms, sending millions of dollars in state taxpayer funds overseas.