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Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the Department of Labor refuses to back off its claim that only 644,000 workers would lose overtime pay under changes the agency intends to make to the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Alliance@IBM members and other IBM workers won a major victory when a federal court ruled on July 31 against IBM's attempt to switch their pension plan to a cash-balance one. There's no decision yet on how affected employees will be compensated and IBM plans to appeal immediately.

Everyone has to work late sometimes. All grownups miss a few dinners at home and every now and then your parents might - unhappily - miss one of your ballgames because the boss says they've got to work.

At this writing, CWA is engaged in a struggle with Verizon Communications that can affect far more than the 78,000 union workers at this company's eastern region.