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CWA is playing a key role as the AFL-CIO undertakes a wide open self-examination and debate over strategies to revitalize the labor movement and reverse the steady decline of union membership as a proportion of the workforce.

In the Social Security debate, there are three things economists across the political spectrum agree on:

One: Private accounts would do nothing at all to resolve the program's long-term funding problems.

Media reports indicate that off-the-record many Republicans are angry about the Social Security scheme. A few have been bold enough to speak out publicly.

Nearly 400 new members came to CWA in recent weeks, including police, nurses, teachers, attorneys and broadcast technicians.

Below is the Executive Board's 10-point plan for revitalizing organized labor: