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In a National Labor Relations Board election, workers at the Monroe Free Library in Poughkeepsie, NY, voted 11 to 0 this week to become CWA Local 1120 members.

In the biggest organizing victory in the South in decades, 9,000 American Airlines passenger service agents joined with their nearly 6,000 US Airways colleagues and overwhelmingly voted for a CWA voice at the merged airline.

CWAers, Allies Give T-Mobile CEO John Legere the Business in San Francisco

On MSNBC's Ed Show yesterday, CWA President Larry Cohen said all of us should stand behind the fast food workers ? and Walmart workers, the Committee for Better Banks and others ? who are fighting not just for a raise but for a union voice. All working Americans need a raise and need bargaining rights in order to share in today's corporate profits, he said.

President Obama: "If I were busting my butt in the service industry and wanted an honest day?s pay for an honest day?s work, I?d join a union. I'd want a union looking out for me."