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District 13 Vice President Vince Maisano reported that the American Arbitration Association has certified that a significant majority of Cingular retail sales, administrative support workers and technicians chose CWA through card check.

Senator John Kerry has written to the CEO of Adelphia Corp., urging the company to reach "a fair agreement that will be positive for the workers, the community and the company."

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.

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.

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.