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Brenda Scott, president of CWA Local 3570, is running for mayor of Jackson, Miss., a city and state where she has successfully organized more than 3,000 members against some of the toughest odds in the country.

As thousands of union activists are using the Congressional recess to talk to lawmakers about the Employee Free Choice Act, a new TV ad hit national airwaves Thursday exposing the true motive – greed -- of those spending millions to try to defeat the bill.

Retired District 2 Vice President Peter G. Catucci, who spent a lifetime fighting for working families, died April 3 after battling ALS disease for more than two years. Catucci, 60, was CWA's longest-serving district vice president, having won election to the post at CWA's 48th Convention in 1986.

Nearly 400 health care workers gained CWA representation through organizing campaigns in California and New York. A unit of 63 licensed practical nurses and medical technicians at the Faxton campus of the Faxton-St. Luke's Health Center, in Utica, N.Y., voted for CWA Local 1126 by a big 40-16 margin, said District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton.