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CWA Intl.Newsletter 6/25/09

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Dear Members:

As you may be aware, the Senate and House of Representatives have two (2) proposals for Healthcare. The Senate Healthcare Bill proposes a 40% excise tax on healthcare benefits. WE CANNOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!

President Obama has come out in favor of taxing healthcare benefits. We must get involved so that either the healthcare excise tax is eliminated entirely or it is such a small amount that it would become inconsequential to our Members.

I am asking that ALL Members participate in calling the toll free (888) number on the flyer tell your U.S. Representative to support the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Healthcare Bill.

The 888 number is the CWA Healthcare Hotline. The number will ask you to say your name, and your Local number. Your Local number is CWA Local 1023. They will then ask for your zip code and give you an option of which House Representative or Senator you would like to speak to. The idea is to get your House of Representative member to tell Nancy Pelosi that "we can't live with an excise tax on Healthcare Benefits".

It important that we flood the telephone lines in Washington D.C. with phone calls.

Fraternally,

Kathy Forte

President

CWA Local 1023

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest telecommunications Union in North America, it represents 630,000 workers in public and private employment, including 500,000 workers building the Information Highway. More than 1,200 chartered CWA local unions are affiliated. Members work and live in some 10,000 communities in the U.S. and Canada. CWA members are employed in telecommunications, printing and media, public service, health care, cable television, general manufacturing, electronics, gas and electric utilities, and other fields. CWA holds over 1,000 collective bargaining agreements spelling out wages, benefits, and working conditions for its members. Among major employers of CWA members are AT&T, the Regional Bell telephone companies (RBOC's), GTE, NBC, and ABC television networks, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the state of New Jersey, and leading newspapers.

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