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Online journalist Josh Wolf, who is being honored by The Newspaper Guild-CWA next month for refusing to turn over a protest video to authorities, was released from a federal detention center on Tuesday after spending 7 ½ months behind bars.

Through a combination of old-fashioned workplace discussions and information age communications, Local 1103 in Portchester, N.Y., enlisted 10 percent of its 1,500 members as part of a "Speed Matters Action Committee," or SMAC, in just a couple of months.

Protests by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA and its members is being cited as a big reason the FCC announced this week that it is dropping its inquiry into lifting the ban on cell phone use on airplanes during flight.

A CWA-backed bill introduced in the U.S. House last week would require call center employees to disclose their physical location when making calls to or receiving calls from consumers.

A new AFL-CIO video, "Justice: The Heart of Organizing," is being offered at no charge to union locals in hopes that leaders will show it at meetings, orientations and other events.