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United Airlines flight attendants and retirees, members of AFA-CWA, have been getting lots of support on Capitol Hill in their fight to protect retiree health care for 2,500 pensioners.

Shareholders at several large CWA employers will vote this spring on whether to investigate how outsourcing American jobs affects those companies' brand names and reputations.

Have faith my friends, offshore outsourcing is "a good thing," according to President Bush's chief economic advisor Gregory Mankiw. It's "just a new way of doing international trade."

Chanting "American Jobs for American Workers," "Shame on You" and "No Outsourcing," about 150 CWA leaders on Feb. 23 demonstrated at the 2004 Outsourcing World Summit in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

CWA mailers at the Washington Post are reaching out to labor activists, political leaders and the general public in a fight against contract takeback demands and discriminatory treatment of mostly minority workers in the job title of utility mailer.