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Just before the New Year dawned, 341 more Cricket employees voted to join with the rest of the retail Cricket employees in District 6 of the Communications Workers of America to become part of the CWA-AT&T Mobility family in the past two months.

Telecommunications workers vote for union representation at AT&T Digital Life and Cricket Wireless.

In 40 years of making laws in the nation's capital - 10 in the U.S. House of Representatives and 30 in the U.S. Senate, Tom Harkin (D-IA) has fought to give the little guy "a leg up on the economic ladder of success," with some failures but many, many successes, including leading the fight for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Harkin, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP), spoke movingly about what drove him all these years.

The National Labor Relations Board upheld some modest changes in the union representation election process intended to simplify the process and minimize delay.

The NLRB ruled that workers have the right to use their work email accounts during non-work hours to discuss workplace issues in a case involving TNG-CWA members, who are American Sign Language interpreters at Purple Communications.