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As millions of cell phone customers consider switching carriers now that new rules allow for cell phone number portability, CWA is letting union members know that they can support a company that proclaims it is "proud to be a union company" - Cingular Wireless - and also receive special union-member

Apply now for partial college scholarships of $3,000 each for the 2004-2005 school year, and another $3,000 for 2005-2006. (2nd year award based on satisfactory academic record.)

Thirty new scholarships will be awarded by CWA's Joe Beirne Scholarship Program.

Rich Dambakly, all-around athlete, member of CWA Local 1101 and a cable splicer for Verizon in New York, knows a lot about comebacks.

In a national union representation election, workers at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation voted decisively for representation by the Canadian Media Guild, a local union of The Newspaper Guild/Canada, CWA.

A New Jersey federal district court judge threw out a nine-count lawsuit filed last year by Verizon Wireless against CWA.