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Two of this year's Pulitzer Prize winners at the Wall Street Journal joined other leading reporters in telling Dow Jones shareholders on Wednesday that quality journalism at the paper could be threatened by current bargaining demands to slash salaries and health benefits for the editorial staff.

CWA members and other union activists are ready for this year's round of corporate annual meetings, with news conferences, demonstrations and other actions planned for major CWA employers.

While Verizon president and chief operating officer Dennis Strigl addressed telecom industry execs at Bank of America's Media, Telecommunications and Entertainment Conference in New York City on March 29, some 200 CWA members at Verizon core picketed on the outside, chanting "Tear Down the Wall."

Our opponents are pulling out all the stops and sparing no expense to bully lawmakers, misinform the public, and oppose free choice for workers. We all should expect more of the same as the debate on the Employee Free Choice Act continues in the Senate (bill S. 1041).