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Two of CWA's key policy goals – Employee Free Choice and a national broadband strategy – are part of the Democratic platform that will be presented to next week's national party convention in Denver.

More than 500 workers from AT&T Mobility in Boardman, Ohio, and the city of Stillwater in Oklahoma, took different paths to union representation following recent majority signup elections.

CWA released its second annual survey of Internet connection speeds in the United States and the results show that our nation continues to lag behind other advanced countries when it comes to broadband speed and availability.

A private ambulance dispatcher has trumped hundreds of other workers with rotten bosses, describing how her company owners forced her to ride in a dilapidated ambulance with a "chemically dependent" driver at the wheel and ex-cons as medics.

If economics were an Olympic event, Americans would get gold medals in productivity and per capita income. But the United States would be far from medal contention in other categories – poverty, inequality and work hours – according to the forthcoming 2008-09 "State of Working America," published by the Economic Policy Institute.