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Workers of America in AT&amp;T&apos;s southeast region, which includes 30,000 employees.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1328774985</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:47:28 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AT&amp;T reaches agreement with CWA (at bizjournals.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/bizj/rss/SIG=12a16d4gg/*http%3A//atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2009/12/14/daily12.html?ana=yfcpc</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2767718349</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:05:30 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Verizon Transforms Photo Sharing, Delivering Photos to FiOS TV (PR Newswire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/091214/ny25650.html?.v=1</link><description>Verizon continues to change the way people share their memories at home by harnessing the power of the company&apos;s advanced, all-fiber-optic network to bring personal photos and 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