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As the elected clerk of Jefferson County, Texas, Carolyn LeBlanc Guidry isn't your typical manager: She'd love nothing more than for her 38 employees to join a union.

Want to know what's in store for CWA members and their customers in a corporate spinoff? Just follow the money and distribution of debt. That's what CWA did over a year ago when Sprint Corp. sought to shed its local telephone operation prior to merging with Nextel Communi-cations.

CWA successfully leveraged its influence with local officials against Comcast to fight for card check organizing in Oakland, Calif., and in Detroit, Mich., to force the huge corporate bully to bargain a contract with its workers.

In Florida's state legislature, Rep. Julio Robaina gets kidded about being an "oxymoron."

The good news — thanks to the hard work of CWA and other unions — is that there's a new worker-friendly governor in New Jersey and he's got a Democratic legislature working with him.