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With a number of strong pro-worker candidates running for the U.S. Senate next year, a breakthrough in labor's efforts to make the Employee Free Choice Act the law of the land is in reach.

On December 12, CWA Vice President Chris Shelton, District 1, officially notified Verizon Communications that CWA was breaking off early negotiations on behalf of all CWA and IBEW teams.

Voice, data, video and wireless – it's a far different AT&T than in 1984, when a court-ordered divestiture broke up the telephone system. Now AT&T is the largest unionized private sector employer in the country.

An unprecedented global forum brought 200 union leaders from around the world to Washington, D.C., for strategy sessions on how to strengthen global bargaining and organizing rights. Over the two-day conference, union leaders shared information on the status of labor in their countries and agreed to chart improved and declining collective bargaining density, especially as it is linked to political action.

A last minute scramble by Verizon Communications – and nearly half a billion dollars in concessions from Verizon and FairPoint Commuications – couldn’t stampede Maine regulators into accepting a settlement without additional review.