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CWA has begun running advertisements to highlight the critical role the Verizon workers played in restoring vital services following the attack. Many of these workers have suffered serious health issues related to the work they did in the following days, weeks and months. Verizon - a corporation already making billions in profits each year - now wants to punish those and other workers by eliminating sick days and forcing workers to pay thousands of dollars a year in health care costs.

On Wednesday August 31, people from House Transportation Committee chairman, John Mica's Congressional District in Florida, came out to protest his plans for another union busting FAA shutdown. They sent a clear message back to Washington with the Congressman - no more shutdowns, pass a clean FAA reauthorization.

Just as AT&T announced this week that it would return 5,000 wireless jobs to the United States following its pending merger with T-Mobile USA, the U.S. Justice Department announced it was seeking to block the deal.