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Labor unions are gearing up to fight the biggest battle yet in the Bush administration's continued attacks on workers, as the White House stealthily plots to yank away the 40-hour workweek from millions of private and public employees by eroding the Fair Labor Standards Act.

As part of CWA's and the labor movement's continuing drive to bring collective bargaining and organizing rights to all workers, Executive Vice President Larry Cohen has urged locals to pass and act upon their own bargaining rights resolutions similar to those passed earlier this year by CWA and the

America's system for protecting workers' collective bargaining and organizing rights is broken, leaders from CWA, the AFL-CIO and other unions told a group of 100 key congressional staff leaders in a May 29 briefing.

The Bush administration has announced an agreement preserving the Government Printing Office's centuries-old monopoly on federal printing jobs, CWA Vice President Bill Boarman of the Printing Sector said.

Facing numerous retrogressive demands, 450 ALLTEL workers in Kentucky went on strike just after midnight on June 8 as their formerly Verizon contract expired.