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The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center has set up a disaster relief fund for union families to aid the recovery and rebuilding in the Indian Ocean nations devastated by the Dec. 26 tsunami.

The CWA Executive Board called on the AFL-CIO and other progressive organizations to take action to help protect defined benefit pension plans now under assault in California.

The campaign to help bring representation to Verizon Wireless workers continued in force over the holiday season, with members from CWA Districts 1, 2, 4, 6 and 13 leafleting customers, talking with employees and even paying a holiday visit to Verizon Wireless CEO Dennis Strigl.

It's a year of self-examination for the labor movement as it struggles to rebuild declining union membership during the second term of a notoriously anti-union president.

In the battles American workers are forced to fight to exercise their rights to organize and bargain, union-busting companies frequently rely on the advice of management-side labor lawyers.