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The Kerry for President campaign has tapped CWA Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Easterling to co-chair the Women for Kerry Committee, comprising professional women who will speak out across the country about the many ways John Kerry's platform would help women.

In the wake of a court decision ordering the FCC to revisit its media ownership rules, CWA and fellow unions representing half a million media workers are calling for public hearings so that citizens - this time around - can fully air their concerns.

More than 700 CWA members in the Phoenix area have joined the ranks of the unemployed, some of them with more than 30 years of service to their former AT&T cable plant, bought by Belden Communications in 1999.

Tell your jobless friends or those flipping burgers because they lost a higher-paying job with benefits that the "compassionate" Bush re-election team has figured out how to help: anti-depressants.

Invited to give labor's view of outsourcing to a World Bank conference, CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen said the cycle of contracting out services to the cheapest labor markets is bad for workers, for consumers and for economic growth, leading "to a relentless global race to the bottom."