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After years of fighting for change at New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Services, CWA members are starting to see progress toward reforms they've demanded to help caseworkers better protect the state's at-risk children.

Michael J. Bindas was sworn in as the new president of IUE-CWA on Dec. 29 at the IUE-CWA District 7 headquarters in Dayton, Ohio. He will lead 80,000 manufacturing workers comprising CWA's Industrial Division.

AFA-CWA won a big arbitration victory at US Airways that upheld its members' contract rights and retained the right of flight attendants to accept a voluntary furlough before the airline can begin involuntary layoffs, President Pat Friend reported.

A federal judge has affirmed that company slogans are fair game for parody in the context of a labor dispute, throwing out Verizon Wireless' lawsuit against CWA for referring to its advertising slogan - "Can You Hear Us Now?" - in the union's own print and broadcast commercials.

CWA locals are gearing up for SBC bargaining with activist training programs, membership meetings and rallies and one-on-one contacts with workers, while the company is getting ready by resorting to hardball tactics.