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Verizon workers continue mobilizing, fighting for a fair contract. AT&T Southeast's 28,000 workers have been working since August 8 without a contract.

CWA is filing letters with telephone regulators in six states and Washington, DC, calling for investigations into the deterioration of Verizon's copper landline networks.

CWA locals representing AT&T workers in two District 3 locations held unfair labor practices strikes last week.

Poor Verizon. In contract negotiations with CWA and the IBEW, the company says it just doesn't have the money for a fair contract for 39,000 workers from Virginia to Massachusetts.

In a decision that opens the door to more American workers having more rights, the NLRB ruled last week that a company that contracts out work but owns and controls the workplace and sets job conditions could be considered a joint employer of the workers with its contractor.