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CWA members were among thousands of union activists joining rallies for embattled postal workers at nearly 500 locations Tuesday that covered every U.S. congressional district in every state.

With signs supporting public workers and decrying corporate greed, a lively crowd of Missouri CWA members and allies gathered outside the St. Louis Ritz-Carlton on Tuesday as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie arrived for a $10,000-a-plate fundraiser.

First it was a bad case of sour grapes for Sprint when AT&T replaced the company as a potential merger partner with T-Mobile. Now Sprint's real motives for its anti-AT&T campaign have become clear: after protesting loudly that a merger would hurt consumers and wireless competition, Sprint now says it wants to buy T-Mobile and thinks regulators will approve the deal.

New York City NABET-CWA members had a busy morning Wednesday as they hosted a "combined mobilization rally" that made appearances outside the Today Show and Good Morning America, with a stop in between at a midtown Verizon Wireless store.

In a joint letter to Congress this week, CWA, AFA-CWA and a dozen other unions urged lawmakers to pass a clean, multi-year Federal Aviation Administration budget bill that brings stability to the critical agency without tying its funds to Republicans' anti-worker demands.