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More than 6 million U.S. workers still stand to lose their right to overtime pay beginning in late August, in spite of an aggressive union campaign that forced the Department of Labor to make changes in its final rule governing who's eligible for overtime.

AT&T's plan to abandon the residential telephone market - both local and long distance - and to stop competing for small business customers in some markets is the latest in a long list of bad decisions costly for workers and shareholders, CWA leaders say.

A proposal to change CWA's convention schedule from yearly to every three years will be one of the major issues for delegates gathering at this year's convention on Aug. 30-31 in Anaheim, Calif.

Among the 5,000 delegates and alternates, the eight presidential contenders who didn't make the ticket, past presidents and past challengers, and even among those in the roaring crowd with differing views on the war in Iraq, the unity at the Democratic National Convention was unshakeable.

CWA is calling on Congress to ensure that new Internet communications services such as Voice over the Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other IP-enabled services adhere to laws requiring them to support the public interest and public safety.