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Starting Sept. 29, Delta/Northwest flight attendants' campaign for bargaining rights officially gets underway, with voting materials set to be mailed out by the National Mediation Board to 20,000 flight attendants. The voting period ends Nov. 3.

The National Labor Relations Board, by a 2-1 vote, denied a request by Xerox Corp./Affiliated Computer Services to throw out a regional director's decision that certified the EZ Pass workers' union election.

Across the union movement, activists are taking a stand for Piedmont workers who want a union voice. Piedmont, a subsidiary of US Airways, has hired a notorious union-busting firm, LRI, to keep workers from having a union voice.

Human Rights Watch has called out Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile and several other European companies for violating workers' rights in the U.S., while maintaining positive labor relations with unions and workers in their home countries.