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Outside a deli called "Grandma's" in Duluth, Minn., this week, chanting demonstrators ? including some angry grandmas ? shamed a GOP congressman who was charging people to attend his so-called town hall meeting inside.

Following revelations that Colombia may have misused U.S. government aid to probe and undermine the activities of labor leaders and union activists, CWA President Larry Cohen and United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard are calling on the House Select Intelligence Committee to investigate the matter.

As a Sept. 16 funding deadline nears, CWA activists are mounting an all-out campaign to prevent anti-union Republicans from forcing another senseless shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Citing case after case in which employers have systematically thwarted and delayed workers' efforts to organize, CWA is urging the National Labor Relations Board to move forward with rule changes to streamline and speed up union elections.

Martin O'Hanlon, who was elected this summer as the new head of the CWA Canadian Region has officially taken over as the union's director.