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In the wake of a court decision ordering the FCC to revisit its media ownership rules, CWA and fellow unions representing half a million media workers are calling for public hearings so that citizens - this time around - can fully air their concerns.

The Kerry for President campaign has tapped CWA Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Easterling to co-chair the Women for Kerry Committee, comprising professional women who will speak out across the country about the many ways John Kerry's platform would help women.

Barry Reingold says, sure, things got a little heated that day at the gym in the fall of 2001, when he and a group of fellow exercisers were exorcising their feelings about President George W. Bush.

Labor Day has always been about thanksgiving and solidarity. But this Labor Day, Local 2101 President Gloria Pack will measure her own good fortune against the travails of working women elsewhere in the world who fight valiantly to have a union.

Intense negotiations with BellSouth Corp., produced a tentative settlement that achieves CWA's goals of strengthening job security and safeguarding health care for workers and retirees, among other gains. The agreement covers some 46,000 workers in nine states.