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January 12, 1912: Ten thousand textile workers, mostly women and immigrants, walked off the job in Lawrence, MA, marking the beginning of an explosive 8-week strike. It became known as the ?Bread & Roses? strike, a landmark event in American history.

AFA-CWA Flight Attendants at United Airlines are preparing to vote on a tentative agreement reached with United last weekend through expedited mediation.

A long campaign of solidarity for NABET-CWA members at NBC Universal has paid off, as the union and company reached a tentative agreement this week with wage and job security improvements. The last contract expired March 31, 2009.

With a campaign that is flooding the Indiana statehouse with thousands of activists every day, CWA and other unions are determined to stop Republican leaders from ramming an anti-union "right-to-work" bill through the legislature.