CWA's District 3 bargaining team reached a tentative four-year agreement at AT&T Mobility that provides wage increases of 10 percent, upgrades job titles and includes other improvements.

The tentative agreement, reached just before the April 16 contract expiration, covers more than 11,200 workers. The bargaining committee unanimously recommended ratification; members will be voting on the proposed agreement.

CenturyLink has announced plans to buy Qwest Communications in an all-stock deal.

CWA has stressed that in its discussions with management of both companies, we will focus on the employment security and rights of our members and continued critical investment in high speed broadband.

CWA locals, many of them working with other unions, community groups and occupational safety and health experts, are planning rallies, memorial services and educational activities during the week of Workers Memorial Day, April 28.

If your local hasn't decided what to do, CWA's Occupational Safety and Health Director Dave LeGrande and Workers Memorial Day materials available from the AFL-CIO can help.

Members of the Newspaper Guild-CWA and Guild-represented newspapers won more than half of the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes awarded this week.

• Local 38010 members Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News for Investigative Reporting for "resourceful reporting that exposed a rogue police narcotics squad, resulting in an FBI probe and the review of hundreds of criminal cases tainted by the scandal."
• Local 34051 member Raquel Rutledge of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for Local Reporting for "penetrating reports on the fraud and abuse in a child-care program for low-wage working parents that fleeced taxpayers and imperiled children, resulting in a state and federal crackdown on providers."