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It's not just Wisconsin and Ohio where workers are fighting to save collective bargaining rights, their voice at work and democracy itself.

Four AFTRA-represented Sesame Street stars joined CWA, Writers Guild of America East members, Free Press, Move On and other allies for a news conference on Capitol Hill. Speakers included Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), one of the leading voices in Congress for public broadcasting.

The labor fighting brewing in Washington is heating up, as some Republicans in the House seem to be having second thoughts about making it harder for aviation and railworkers to organize. At issue is the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill and a provision in it that would overturn a ruling by the National Mediation Board regarding elections in those unions. Until last year's decision by the NMB, if an eligible voter did not vote in a union representation election, her vote was automatically counted as an active vote against representation.

Gearing up for the biggest nationwide mobilization of workers in decades, CWA, the union movement and a growing list of allies are planning activities and events for April 4, the day in 1968 that Martin Luther King was murdered while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis.