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During CWA Customer Service Professionals Week this year, locals will be mobilizing in the workplace to fight attempts by the corporate lobby and the Bush Labor Department to curtail protections of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

A group of 140 former AT&T Wireless employees now making up Cingular Wireless's retail sales unit in Maryland organized with CWA on Sept. 20. They will be represented by CWA Local 2107. The American Arbitration Association officially certified union recognition for the group on Sept. 20.

Showing overwhelming support for union representation, 48 former AT&T Wireless employees at Cingular Wireless -- 14 network technicians in Wisconsin and 34 retail sales associates in New Hampshire -- organized with CWA on Sept. 12 and 15.

CWA and other union members, along with journalists from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, protested outside the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. to urge the government to take action to end the CBC's lockout of 5,500 workers.

CWA EVP Jeff Rechenbach traveled to the Gulf with other labor leaders and, guided by the Red Cross, witnessed members beginning the slow process of recovery from Hurricane Katrina.