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As the House-passed Employee Free Choice Act works its way through Congress, Verizon has emerged as one of the legislation's fiercest opponents. Though employing 97,000 union members, the company has joined with the nation's most extreme anti-union elements in seeking to defeat the legislation that would enable workers to win bargaining rights once they demonstrate majority union support.

Flight attendants at US Airways and America West Airlines, members of AFA-CWA, picketed outside US Airways? corporate headquarters in Tempe, Ariz., this week, expressing their frustration over the slow pace of contract negotiations.

Alcatel Lucent workers marched through the streets of Paris this week in a continuing worldwide protest by workers against the company's plan to cut 12,500 jobs.

Claiming it wants to "protect the integrity" of the Family and Medical Leave Act, a coalition of business groups calling itself the National Coalition to Protect Family Leave has asked the Labor Department to make changes in the legislation so the law is "available to those employees Congress intended to cover."