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Flight attendants at US Airways and America West Airlines, members of AFA-CWA, picketed outside US Airways? corporate headquarters in Tempe, Ariz., this week, expressing their frustration over the slow pace of contract negotiations.

Alcatel Lucent workers marched through the streets of Paris this week in a continuing worldwide protest by workers against the company's plan to cut 12,500 jobs.

Claiming it wants to "protect the integrity" of the Family and Medical Leave Act, a coalition of business groups calling itself the National Coalition to Protect Family Leave has asked the Labor Department to make changes in the legislation so the law is "available to those employees Congress intended to cover."

In CWA's version of a triple play, union activists will converge on Washington, D.C., next weekend to immerse themselves in the annual legislative, women's, and safety and health conferences.

A strong lead editorial in the New York Times reinforces the need for the Employee Free Choice Act, to counter the unfairness of the current broken system. "There is little doubt that federal rules and regulations for union organizing have also become increasingly hostile to labor.