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At an Aug. 5 forum focused on working family issues, the nine declared Democratic presidential candidates answered taped questions from workers and described their plans to restore jobs, improve and expand health care and turn around the sinking economy.

In spite of overwhelming evidence that at least 8 million Americans would lose their overtime rights under the Depart-ment of Labor's plan to erode the Fair Labor Standards Act, agency officials are refusing to back off their claims that only 644,000 workers would be affected.

Less than 8.5 percent of private sector workers and less than 35 percent of public workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements.

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was passed in 1935 with the clear intent of promoting unionization and collective bargaining.

Ending a 12-week strike at Verizon South in western North Carolina, CWA Local 3673 members ratified a settlement Aug.