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With the clock on a fair contract for 43,000 Verizon East workers running out at midnight, Saturday Aug. 6, the company has refused to budge from retrogressive bargaining proposals that it knows would be soundly rejected by CWA and IBEW-represented workers.

More than 15,000 Verizon workers and allies turned downtown New York City streets into a sea of red shirts last Saturday to fight the company's effort to gut decades of bargained for gains in pensions, health care, sick leave, pay and more.

On August 4, thousands of CWA activists joined another "virtual union meeting" and talked about actions planned in the home districts of members of Congress in August and September.

As this issue went to press, the House and Senate announced an agreement to extend FAA funding through mid-September, bringing an end to a 12-day partial shutdown of the agency, and sending tens of thousands of FAA employees and private contractors back to work.

Perched in the balcony of Indiana's Senate chamber last week, CWA Local 4900 members listened intently and prepared for their next big legislative fight as Republicans called a "study hearing" on right to work (for less) legislation. CWA's activism during the legislative session earlier this year helped shelve the anti-union bill temporarily, but opponents knew the battle wasn't over.