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Support union workers and get a $50 credit on AT&T cell phone plans, in addition to the 15 percent discount already offered through AT&T's partnership with Union Plus.

Powell's Books, the famous Portland, Ore. bookstore and the nation's only unionized online bookseller, is working with its union and customers to help 31 workers who are being laid off due to declining sales.

ver.di, the union representing more than 2 million workers in Germany, has contacted Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, urging him to ?choose a constructive path and stand by the commitments that have already been set out in legally-negotiated collective agreements.?

ver.di and CWA are working together and have formed TU, a joint global union representing T-Mobile workers in Germany and the U.S. German workers and citizens are appalled by Deutsche Telekom?s double standard: T-Mobile workers in Germany have full bargaining rights and workers? rights are respected by management, contrary to the fear and harassment workers face in the U.S.

Monday, March 7, 2011, marked the 46th anniversary of the incident most often referred to in American civil rights history as ?Bloody Sunday.? This illustrative phrase reflects the consequence of vicious attacks perpetrated against peaceful civil rights activists once they crossed the Edmond Pettus Bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, that fateful Sunday. However, the event itself, more importantly, underscores what led to significant changes in the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States embodied in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The bill summary defines its purpose as, ?An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes.?

This historic event was marked this week by a high profile political reenactment of that march. The 2011 march was again led by United States Representative John Lewis of Georgia (the principal organizer of the 1965 march), U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV), U.S. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), U.S. House Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn (SC), U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (TX), along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson to name a few. The commemoration was joined by Republican Governor of the state of Alabama Robert Bentley.

Click to read about important dates for women in the United States in the month of March, Women's History Month.