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Poor Verizon. In contract negotiations with CWA and the IBEW, the company says it just doesn't have the money for a fair contract for 39,000 workers from Virginia to Massachusetts.

In a decision that opens the door to more American workers having more rights, the NLRB ruled last week that a company that contracts out work but owns and controls the workplace and sets job conditions could be considered a joint employer of the workers with its contractor.

CWA District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings and former CWA President Larry Cohen joined NAACP President Cornell Brooks and the Rev. William Barber at a huge National Voting Rights rally today in North Carolina, the latest leg in the history-making America's Journey for Justice to Washington, D.C. as part of efforts to persuade the nation's leaders to adopt policies that protect lives, jobs and the right to vote.

At a meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellin, CWA President Chris Shelton and a delegation of AFL-CIO leaders said working families were not sharing in the economic recovery and profits of employers, and that good jobs continued to be at risk.

In an op-ed, CWA President Chris Shelton talked about how the partnership between the labor movement and the civil rights movements is how we will gain economic and social justice.