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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.

At a rally Sunday, CWA Local 1103 members in White Plains, N.Y., honored Martin Luther King, Jr., while furthering their fight for good jobs at Verizon and Verizon Wireless.