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Local 7019 members have ratified a new four-year pact with Citizens Telephone Co. in Showlow, Ariz., that provides raises of nearly 8.5 percent and creates a "Common Interest Forum" to foster programs that can benefit the company, customers and workers.

It's the height of hypocrisy, say social workers and administrative staff at the National Association of Social Workers. NASW Executive Director Betsy Clark says she wants to improve the wages and working conditions of social workers across the land, but she doesn't practice what she preaches.

Delegates representing more than 5,000 Cingular Wireless workers from CWA locals in Districts 1, 2, 4, 9 and 13 met in Washington, D.C., in November for an historic first bargaining council.

CWA reached a tentative 7-year, 7-month agreement with Lucent Technologies that greatly reduces the company's demands for substantial health care cost shifting of premiums to active and retired workers and achieves new job security gains. The contract will remain in effect through May 2012.

Since the Bush administration thinks corporate offshoring is "a good thing," perhaps it's not surprising that our government doesn't track the numbers of American jobs that are shifted overseas each year.