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American Rights at Work is coordinating a major media campaign on the Employee Free Choice Act that includes television ads that will be broadcast for two weeks beginning Jan. 15 on national cable and network stations. The ads use workers – including five CWA members – who make the connection between restoring America's middle class and workers' rights to choose union representation.

Proving once again that workers will join a union if they have a free choice – and don't have to face the management intimidation that takes place in the overwhelming majority of NLRB campaigns – nearly 180 workers at AT&T Mobility joined CWA last week through majority sign up.

In the face of media layoffs and bankruptcies, 150 members of CWA's newspaper, printing and broadcast sectors met for three days in Baltimore last weekend to talk about strategies for saving not just jobs but the industry.

A majority of flight attendants at Lynx Aviation voted by a 2-1 margin this week for representation by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. The election vote, conducted by the National Mediation Board (NMB), showed that 55 of the 87 eligible Lynx flight attendants voted for AFA-CWA despite an aggressive anti-union campaign by management.

Starting this week, we have added another resource for local union communicators on The Source, CWA's website for local union communicators.