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Despite $20 million spent in nine battleground states by big business interests to attack support for the Employee Free Choice Act by Democratic Senate candidates, voters ignored the misleading attacks and overwhelmingly favored candidates who support working families.

A campaign by a coalition of Colorado unions, including CWA, some business groups and political leaders succeeded in defeating two deceptive anti-union ballot measures in their state Tuesday.

AFA-CWA filed petitions with the National Mediation Board for separate representation elections on behalf of the 87 flight attendants at Lynx Aviation flight and 150 at Ryan International.

Please send us your photos of Election 2008 activities. We are posting them regularly on The Source, CWA's website for union communicators. E-mail photos to news@cwa-union.org.

Cards from CWAers signing on to the Million Member Mobilization for Employee Free Choice reached 107,995 as of Nov. 4, as pledge cards and online sign ups continue to come in.