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It's official: The Ohio petition drive to let voters decide the fate of the state's new anti-union law gathered 915,456 valid signatures ? more than three times the number required.

"Corporate America's Chokehold on Wages," is the latest from Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson, one of the media's strongest voices for unions and workers' rights. "If you're wondering why American consumers are still flat on their backs... the answer is both fundamental and simple: It's not just that so many of them are unemployed. The ones who are employed are also underpaid," Meyerson writes.

Firing up CWA convention delegates Monday, one of Capitol Hill's truest champions for workers and their rights condemned the anti-union corporate ideology that is gripping Washington and threatening to strangle America's middle class.

From protecting Medicare to opposing the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, stopping voter suppression and battling state attacks on workers' rights, resolutions that CWA convention delegates passed this week had a central theme: Taking action and continuing to build a broad-based movement to fight back.

With 70 percent "yes" votes, IUE-CWA members at General Electric have ratified the four-year contract that negotiators reached in June after four weeks of bargaining.