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The U.S. Senate is taking on the Federal Communications Commission over its June decision to further erode decades-old rules protecting media diversity, launching a battle that could overturn the FCC's wildly unpopular ruling.

With a wink and a nod, the Bush administration claims that 1.3 million low-wage workers will see their paychecks grow just as soon as its revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act take effect.

Labor unions are gearing up to fight the biggest battle yet in the Bush administration's continued attacks on workers, as the White House stealthily plots to yank away the 40-hour workweek from millions of private and public employees by eroding the Fair Labor Standards Act.

As part of CWA's and the labor movement's continuing drive to bring collective bargaining and organizing rights to all workers, Executive Vice President Larry Cohen has urged locals to pass and act upon their own bargaining rights resolutions similar to those passed earlier this year by CWA and the

America's system for protecting workers' collective bargaining and organizing rights is broken, leaders from CWA, the AFL-CIO and other unions told a group of 100 key congressional staff leaders in a May 29 briefing.