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CWA has learned of the first reported death of one of its members serving in Iraq. U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Jason Lehto, 31, died on Dec. 26 in what the Department of Defense classified as a "non-hostile incident" in Al Anbar Province.

A dispute over work that hundreds of retired technicians were to be allowed to do for Avaya in 2003 and 2004 has led to a $3.75 million settlement, which will be distributed to affected CWA and IBEW members.

Despite growing struggles to publish and deliver their newspaper, management at the Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio, has refused to return to the bargaining table to end the seven-week strike by TNG-CWA Local 34011.

The federal judge overseeing US Airways' bankruptcy approved the tentative agreement that CWA-represented passenger service agents ratified on Dec. 23.

Edward J. Spillett Jr, a NABET-CWA staff representative based in Washington, D.C., died Dec. 24.