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America's system for protecting workers' collective bargaining and organizing rights is broken, leaders from CWA, the AFL-CIO and other unions told a group of 100 key congressional staff leaders in a May 29 briefing.

The Bush administration has announced an agreement preserving the Government Printing Office's centuries-old monopoly on federal printing jobs, CWA Vice President Bill Boarman of the Printing Sector said.

Facing numerous retrogressive demands, 450 ALLTEL workers in Kentucky went on strike just after midnight on June 8 as their formerly Verizon contract expired.

As bargaining got underway for 58,000 CWA members at Verizon East, union negotiators confronted a blizzard of concession demands.

Workers at the Jersey City Employment and Training Program won voluntary recognition from their employer on June 17, two days before a scheduled National Labor Relations Board election.