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"Our democracy is corrupted," wrote CWA President Larry Cohen in the latest issue of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council?s newsletter. "Money is not speech. Corporations are not people. Our path to change must rely on massive movement-building, uniting economic justice and democracy."

Today, 23 Brooklyn Cablevision workers were illegally fired after attempting to discuss the lack of good-faith bargaining by the company with their management and expressing support for their bargaining committee ? protected activities by federal law. The Communications Workers of America, which the workers voted to join a year ago, condemned the firings as an illegal and outrageous attack on the company?s hard-working employees. Last week, CWA had filed unfair labor practice charges alleging bad-faith bargaining by Cablevision-Optimum.

IUE-CWA organized in Kansas City and CWA Local 6360 continues to represent in Kansas City.

American Airlines agents and CWA are continuing their efforts to get a voice on the job and in the future, following a narrow loss in the representation election among 7,800 agents.

A unit of 73 certified nursing assistants joined CWA last week, growing the union?s presence at a recently privatized county hospital.