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Heralded as American workers' best hope to form unions and bargain contracts with employers who brazenly break today's labor laws, the Employee Free Choice Act crossed its first hurdle in Congress in February as the House Education and Labor Committee voted to send it to the full House of Represe

High speed Internet networks are the infrastructure of the 21st century.                         

Four years ago, the Federal Communications Commission began what could have been a routine and largely stealth process to rewrite media ownership rules so that giant companies could buy and control even more newspapers, TV stations and radio stations.

A CWA member employed as a cable splicer needed knee surgery to be able to continue working in manholes.

A flight attendant represented by AFA-CWA needs intermittent medical leave because of multiple sclerosis.

American bosses see the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act as a dinosaur and frequently treat it like it's extinct, with management standing in the way of workers trying to organize unions, finding ways to force overtime without pay and otherwise thwarting the law.