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Do you find the cover of the CWA News disturbing? We all should. It?s unthinkable that we're seeing the kind of all-out assault on basic workers' rights and collective bargaining that we?re seeing now in Wisconsin, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico and many more states, and in the House of Representatives. Workers' rights and collective bargaining are under a vicious attack. Our opponents, backed by the Chamber of Commerce and big bucks, right-wing interests like the Koch brothers are promising not to stop until they succeed in taking away the fundamental right of workers in a democracy to join together and bargain collectively. That?s the reality.

Good jobs and strong communities go hand in hand. That's the message of Ohio's new and growing coalition, "Stand Up for Good Jobs and Strong Communities."

That was the message that spread like wildfire as Wisconsin union members and supporters stood strong to keep the collective bargaining rights public workers have had for 50 years. As Republican governors and Republican-controlled legislatures in many states attempted to strip away public worker bargaining rights, the state capital in Madison became the starting point of a huge grassroots campaign to stop the attack on workers.