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After 10 months of bargaining and the threat of a strike, CWA members at the Association for Retarded Citizens in New Jersey have emerged with a "model first contract," Local 1037 President Hetty Rosenstein said.

Delegates from 17 CWA locals emerged from the union's annual Sprint presidents' meeting in Las Vegas, Oct 20-21, committed to growing stronger at the bargaining table through organizing and political action.

Take away workers' exercise rights and, well, they're likely to exercise their rights.

The National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935 with the intention of "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and … protecting the exercise by workers of the full freedom of association, self-organization and designation of representatives of their own choosing."

Thousands of cable TV workers have, historically, battled an entire industry that has sought to avoid unionization. That continues today at Comcast: with 24 million subscribers nationwide, the largest and clearly the most anti-union cable provider.