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For the second week, thousands of people are jamming Ohio's statehouse to protest legislation that would wipe out collective bargaining rights for state employees, weaken other workers' rights and have a devastating ripple effect on families and communities already struggling financially.

If U.S. House Republicans get their way, PBS, NPR and local radio and TV public broadcasting stations would lose their federal funding and up to 1,500 CWA members could lose their jobs.

The global union movement has joined with CWA and ver.di, the union representing German workers at T-Mobile and parent company Deutsche Telekom, to press DT to end its double standard of supporting workers' rights in Europe but completely opposing them in the United States.

By just one vote, the House Transportation Committee this week voted to reinstate unfair rules for union representation elections for workers in the airline and railroad industries.

In a show of outrage and solidarity, CWA members joined other unions Wednesday to protest Mexico's violations of workers' rights.