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CWA state workers in New Jersey are the latest targets of legislative attacks on workers, as state Senate President Steve Sweeney attempts to strip away their right to bargain over health care.

Are your local TV stations laying off workers and filling newscasts with canned stories from a central location, perhaps many states away? If so, are they violating the terms of their public licenses?

Score another victory for New York's Albany Newspaper Guild: A unanimous National Labor Relations Board says the Times Union newspaper illegally laid off 11 workers in 2009 and broke the law again by declaring impasse in negotiations with the union.

Based on AFA-CWA complaints of widespread interference by Delta Air Lines during the 2010 representation election for 20,000 Flight Attendants, the National Mediation Board has ordered an on-site investigation into Delta's conduct.

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.