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From protecting Medicare to opposing the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, stopping voter suppression and battling state attacks on workers' rights, resolutions that CWA convention delegates passed this week had a central theme: Taking action and continuing to build a broad-based movement to fight back.

In a critical time for raising funds to fight back against attacks on working families, Districts 1 and 6 were honored this week for their members' CWA Political Action contributions, a collective $1.8 million over the past year.

With 70 percent "yes" votes, IUE-CWA members at General Electric have ratified the four-year contract that negotiators reached in June after four weeks of bargaining.

It took some serious political brawling by CWA Local 1104, but when the New York Legislature ended its session, 6,000 members of the local's Graduate Student Employees Union finally had the raises they negotiated in 2009.

With just days to go until Wisconsin's first round of recall elections, CWA members and thousands of other volunteers are using every available moment to make phone calls and knock on doors.