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Union briefing on collective bargaining and organizing rights draws nearly 100 congressional staffers.

CWA filed unfair labor practice charges against Adelphia Communications after the company allegedly attempted to break the workers' union. Forty-two members of Local 2004 went on strike May 22.

The Bush administration is proposing new rules that would not only destroy overtime pay for millions of workers, but could also allow employers to force longer work days and weeks.

A professor and students whose work has freed wrongly convicted death row inmates in Illinois, a Sacramento reporter who chronicled a tidy neighborhood's collapse into a dangerous slum and two exceptional student writers were honored in May with The Newspaper Guild-CWA's top awards for journalistic

Elizabeth Neuffer, a veteran war correspondent and member of the Boston Newspaper Guild known for her bravery, impassioned pursuit of human rights abuses and eloquent writing, died in a car accident in Iraq on May 9.