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A federal judge has affirmed that company slogans are fair game for parody in the context of a labor dispute, throwing out Verizon Wireless' lawsuit against CWA for referring to its advertising slogan - "Can You Hear Us Now?" - in the union's own print and broadcast commercials.

CWA locals are gearing up for SBC bargaining with activist training programs, membership meetings and rallies and one-on-one contacts with workers, while the company is getting ready by resorting to hardball tactics.

CBC Employees Vote to Merge with Canadian Media Guild
Workers at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. have voted decisively for representation by the Canadian Media Guild, a local union of The Newspaper Guild/Canada, CWA.

Less than 8.5 percent of private sector workers are covered under a collective bargaining agreement, down from a high of 35 percent in 1954. Twenty states still deny public workers collective bargaining rights.

The president in his State of the Union address was describing an America that is far different from the reality facing millions of working people.