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Thanks to strong inside committees and support from CWA members at Cingular Wireless, 1,578 former AT&T Wireless customer service representatives gained CWA representation at Cingular call centers in Oklahoma City, Okla., and Portland, Ore., on Sept. 2 and Sept. 6 respectively.

CWA members are giving generously while union leaders assess the shattering toll on CWA families.

CWA members on the job are in the thick of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, working in conditions that some journalists are likening to war zones.

In his first speech as president of CWA, Larry Cohen issued a challenge to the union's 1,000 employers in the United States and Canada to work with union members to "define what leadership really means."

Moved by the devastation to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, delegates to the CWA annual convention voted to send up to $4 million in aid from the union's Members' Relief Fund to help CWA families in the region recover.