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The Calvert Group, a major investment management firm that handles over $10 billion in assets for 400,000 investors, has dropped Comcast from all of its portfolios, citing the cable giant's "workplace practices and labor relations."

It's a happy new year for 2,400 Cingular workers in the continental United States and Hawaii who gained CWA recognition in December and early January.

The announcement by IBM Corp. that it is freezing the pensions of some 120,000 employees is outrageous, even by the "Gilded Age" standard of today's corporate executives, CWA President Larry Cohen declared in a statement Jan. 6.

If you are looking for a great project for your Local?s Women?s Committee here is a way to not only help educate young girls about the Labor Movement, but build strong ties to the community as well.

Domestic violence fits into the agenda of unions as a family issue, a public health issue, a workplace issue, and a community issue. Like other struggles for health, safety, and human dignity, domestic violence impacts the lives of untold numbers of working people in the U.S. With increasing frequency, we hear reports about domestic violence that spills into the workplace. Domestic violence can have a disruptive, even dangerous effect on the lives of workers as well as the larger community.