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Millions of workers with military training are also among those workers at risk of losing the right to overtime pay under the Bush administration's attack on the 40-hour workweek.

NABET-CWA members at the CBS affiliate in Youngstown, Ohio, are getting a tidal wave of community support since being locked out after rejecting a contract offer to raise their health care costs by nearly 400 percent.

As he left an event, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg recognized then joined NABET-CWA members picketing CNN's studios. He listened to and expressed compassion for the plight of technicians and camera operators whose contracts CNN severed, leaving them with lower wages and benefits and no union protection.

CWA has donated $100,000 to aid 70,000 locked-out and striking California grocery workers on the front lines of a national fight to preserve health care benefits for workers and families.

CWA is gathering allies in a federal and state level campaign to subject companies providing the new technology that digitizes a conversation so that it can be sent over the Internet to the same rules and obligations as traditional telecommunications companies.