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Verizon Information Services workers in New York ratified a new contract that provides big improvements in compensation, maintains affordable health care and retirement security and improves grievance and arbitration procedures, among other gains.

The State Employee Alliance-CWA and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson signed a three-year contract covering 3,000 state workers in 11 agencies, including public education, environment and health, cultural affairs and the treasurer's office.

Concerned about how new technology will affect their jobs when they bargain a new contract this spring, Mexico City telephone workers turned to CWA for some expert advice.

Citing support from CWA and unions around the world, the Chunghwa Telecom Workers Union announced a new collective bargaining agreement with Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan that provides key safeguards for members in the aftermath of the company's privatization.

Democracy and workers' rights go hand in hand in a way Europeans understand far better than most Americans, CWA President Larry Cohen told an audience today at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.