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As CWA employers expand to offer new services, the union's organizers are right there, demanding representation for the workers that provide them.

The voices of 10,000 American workers - many of them CWA members - were raised the week of June 24 in more than 70 locations in protest against policies that make it either difficult or impossible for workers to join a union.

Even while AT&T prepares to wrestle with regulators and some investors over the company's late June decision to acquire Tele-Communications Inc. in a $48 billion stock deal, TCI workers are looking forward to a fairer playing field when it comes to winning union representation.

CWA negotiators are addressing forced overtime and other workplace issues as well as the need for strengthening job security and improving wages and benefits in talks at five major telecommunications companies.

The issue that was the rallying cry for the formation of the American labor movement was establishment of the eight-hour day and 40-hour week as the national job standar