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In a new video, some of the country's leading actors, singers and comedians describe how the country's broken labor laws are directly connected to the broken economy, and they urge Americans to contact their lawmakers to demand change.

Arbitration provisions in the Employee Free Choice Act are fair to both sides and essential to fix the country's broken labor laws, experts said Wednesday during a media call to refute the latest Big Business campaign against Employee Free Choice.

When management at the Brockton Enterprise newspaper in Massachusetts threatened to outsource layout and design work, CWA/NETT stepped in to provide training that gave copy editors skills in new technologies and computer design applications, and saved their jobs.

CWA and IBEW are raising serious concerns about the sale of Verizon landlines in 14 states to Frontier Communications and are taking those issues to top management at both companies.

Efforts by CWA and supporters from other labor organizations and consumer groups are building support for resolutions to improve corporate governance. Recently, resolutions supported by CWA gained significant support at annual meetings of Verizon Communications, Windstream Corporation and Frontier Communications.