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CWA and Cisco Systems have announced a partnership to provide high-tech skills training to military veterans, as part of CWA's Military-to-Work pilot program, partially funded by the Labor Department, as well as to other workers through CWA retraining and apprenticeship programs.

Vice President Al Gore singled out three CWA programs as examples of "best practices" in lifelong learning and preparedness for the jobs of tomorrow, as more than 300 leaders from business, education, government and labor joined him in Washington, D.C.

The Postal Workers are celebrating a big success in Greensboro, N.C., where workers at East Coast Leasing, a private company under contract to the U.S. Postal Service, voted to join APWU.

From all across the U.S., more than 1,200 workers from a range of industries have chosen to join CWA: wireless and casino employees in the West, day care workers in the Midwest, social work intake interviewers in the East, cable installers in the South.

Described by CWA leaders as "an historic step toward true national bargaining," the union has negotiated a company-wide agreement with GTE that provides for expedited union representation elections, boosts the 401(k) match to 66 percent, improves company tuition assistance and vacation banking provi