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Because too many people don't understand what collective bargaining is, how it works and why it's so important, the AFL-CIO has launched a lively new website that explains it all. You'll find amusing videos, graphics, workers' personal stories, links to helpful articles and more. Use the Facebook, Twitter and email links to share with friends and family. Click here.

Talk show host Ed Schultz, who spoke to CWA members on last week's virtual town hall phone call, is making good on his promise to keep hammering away about workers, workers' rights and the economy. Tuesday night, featuring a chart also published in the current CWA News, Schultz again put the lie to the Republican claim that more tax cuts for the rich will create jobs.

The chart shows the vast and growing wealth gap between the top 1 percent of Americans and everyone else, with workers' income flat-lined for 30 years in spite of rising worker productivity.

"We are living still, unfortunately, in the greediest generation in the history of this country and these numbers right here prove it. Think about it, if the top 1 percent, if they were the job creators, based on what this is right here — hell, we ought to have record employment. Not record unemployment," Schultz said. Watch the segment here.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision blocking 1.5 million women from suing Wal-Mart for discrimination on the job, a University of California professor who often writes about labor issues takes an historic look at the retail giant's authoritarian culture. In the New York Times op-ed, Nelson Lichtenstein concludes that, "There used to be a remedy for this sort of managerial authoritarianism: it was called a union.' Click here to read the full column. (Note: The New York Times is now behind a pay wall, but you can access 20 articles a month for free.)