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About 10,000 CWAers and union activists from New Jersey filled the streets Thursday outside the state capitol in Trenton to protest a deal between Gov. Chris Christie and some legislators that would take away the right of public workers to bargain over health care and pensions.

With major bargaining fights underway and the ongoing battles to protect workers' rights at the state level, summer is going to be hotter than ever for the labor movement, CWA President Larry Cohen told thousands of activists on Thursday night's "virtual town hall" conference call.

Wisconsin workers aren't down or out, despite the blow their state's Supreme Court dealt this week as it gave Gov. Scott Walker a green light to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees.

For two days throughout New Jersey this week, thousands of CWAers rallied against brutal and unfair health care cuts, and to preserve their right to bargain over health care, pensions and other benefits.

Republican lawmakers broke Wisconsin's open meetings law when they rushed to pass a bill stripping public workers of their collective bargaining rights, a judge ruled last week.