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Fourteen EZ Pass union activists who were fired without warning March 8 at the company's Staten Island, N.Y. call center by ACS/Xerox, their employer, got their jobs back this week thanks to a big public backlash that targeted the company's brazen and illegal tactics.

The Federal Communications Commission's just-released National Broadband Plan is a good roadmap for the 21st Century broadband networks our nation needs for jobs and economic development. It's a start to bringing the United States up to world class standards in terms of access, speed and affordability.

CWA members at Verizon West are gearing up their mobilization to support the fight for a fair contract as negotiations for 5,500 workers continued this week past the Mar. 13 contract expiration.

Workers at three companies in CWA District 4 now have CWA representation; their employers agreed to CWA recognition when a majority of workers demonstrated that they wanted a union voice.

Determined Reuters workers are continuing to rally in New York City and Washington, D.C., to protest a 10 percent cut in wages and benefits that Thomson Reuters has imposed on workers after claiming bargaining was at impasse.