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There?s a lot to talk about on tonight?s CWA Telephone Town Hall. CWA activists from around the country will report on the battle in Wisconsin; organizing at General Electric in Burlington, IA; bBargaining and mobilization at AT&T; the June 22 Day of Action in support of Verizon and Verizon Wireless workers and the election 2012 kickoff in New York State.

American Airlines agents and supporters rallied today outside the U.S. District Court in Ft. Worth, Tex., then went inside where Judge Terry Means was hearing American Airlines? case for a preliminary injunction that would further stop the 10,000 agents from their exercising democratic right to vote.

In the Wisconsin recall election, Democrats gained control of the state senate for the first time since Republican Gov. Scott Walker took office. Though voters failed to recall the governor himself, there?s now a firewall to block his divisive, anti-worker agenda.

Should labor organizing be a civil right? The authors of a book answering that very question ? ?Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right: Rebuilding a Middle-Class Democracy by Enhancing Worker Voice? ? are now petitioning the Democratic Party to make it a platform issue.