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Across our country on April 4, working people and allies from the civil rights movement, the religious community, student groups and many more are standing together for the rights of all workers to bargain for a middle-class life, our right to a voice in the political process and the respect that all people deserve.

The White House has said that the Obama Administration would veto legislation that would strip airline and other transportation workers of their right to have democratic union representation elections.

A coalition of New Jersey CWA members, the AARP, Citizen Action, the League of Municipalities and other groups has succeeded in scuttling, for now, a telecom deregulation bill that would have hurt consumers, workers and quality telephone service.

Women workers who are determined to have a voice on the job told their stories at the White House, as part of a forum on women and organizing.

Ohio House Republicans voted Wednesday night to kill collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers, but the fight is far from over as unions and their allies prepare to put the issue on the state ballot in November.