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Fast track passed the House by a single vote in December, 215-214, with 21 Democrats joining most Republicans in approving the anti-worker bill.

GE, home to 20,000 IUE-CWA members in the United States, has become the seventh-largest employer in the world. Over the last two decades the corporate behemoth has exported 130,000 good-paying union jobs to countries that pay less than a subsistence wage and that routinely violate workers’ rights.

AT&T 2002 bargaining and the proposed sell-off of Lucent Technologies operations led the agenda of January’s Communications and Technologies national leadership conference in Orlando, Fla.

Bargaining in the interest of public safety during a time when threats of bioterrorism are a real concern, UPTE/CWA Local 9119 has won across the board raises averaging 3.5 percent for 2,000 health care professionals in the University of California system, reported local President Jelger Kalmijn.

CWA has won a guarantee from the Department of Transportation that it will give priority consideration to furloughed airline passenger service agents for the new airport security jobs.