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The Ohio Senate this week approved Gov. John Kasich's union-busting bill, but the 17-16 vote in the heavy Republican chamber was closer than expected before the rallies and protests that drew tens of thousands of workers to the capitol and to events across the state.

A third major poll on workers' rights confirms the results of two others in the past week: By a two-to-one margin, Americans support collective bargaining for public employees and oppose the kind of union-busting legislation that has sparked nationwide protests

More than 1,900 AT&T premise technicians across District 3 joined CWA through majority sign-up last week. More than 70 percent of workers supported the union, as certified by the American Arbitration Association.

AFA-CWA has filed a federal lawsuit against Delta Air Lines for leaving its former union-represented Northwest flight attendants out of profit-sharing payments it made to its other flight attendants.

The AFL-CIO Executive Council announced March 2 that it is joining with CWA and other global unions in their campaign to help T-Mobile USA workers "win their basic labor rights, gain a voice on the job, and bargain for a better life."