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Local 1109 Member Roger Young, Jr., and his father, a retired telecom worker, on CNN Money in a report on unionization and the Verizon strike.

A CNN Money report on American unionization and the Verizon strike features Local 1109 member Roger Young, Jr., and his father, also a cable splicer who went on strike in 1971. Asked if he's fighting for his children's future, Young said, "I'm fighting for the survival of everybody's kids, because these are great jobs."

Check out a terrific column by the Miami Herald's Leonard Pitts, who advances Sunday's dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial on the national mall by revisiting King's commitments to the poor and the labor unions that helped many impoverished Americans climb into the middle class. "The man we honor Sunday could have died wealthy from speaking fees alone. But he gave that money away and instead died poor, struggling on the side of the poor — garbage workers who came home with maggots in their hair, reeking of other people's waste, having earned maybe $10, gross, for a 14-hour day," Pitts writes.