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Its name conjures up images of marching bands but, in fact, the Drum Major Institute is a non-partisan group that's fighting for America's middle class. And they've recently unveiled a website to further the cause.

It took nine years, a lawsuit and some 400,000 injured workers before the Bush administration had its arm twisted hard enough to issue a rule requiring employers to pay for personal protective gear for workers in dangerous jobs.

Growing numbers of lawmakers in New Hampshire and Vermont are standing with CWA and IBEW members in voicing concern over the pending sale of Verizon's access lines in Northern New England to tiny FairPoint Communications.

Angered by a slew of recent NLRB decisions that are stripping workers of their rights, CWA members and staff joined other union activists — 1,000 altogether — at a noontime rally Thursday in front of National Labor Relation Board headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C.

CWA commended the House of Representatives this week on passage of the Broadband Census of America Act of 2007, calling for the mapping of broadband speeds and access throughout the country. The action moves the nation another step closer to bringing high speed Internet access to every American, said CWA President Larry Cohen.