Volume 71, Issue #3 | Fall 2011

9) To remind corporations and elected officials that ordinary people do make a difference.

From Union Bench Warmer to Quarterback

Kenny Distance used to be a "sit-on-the-sidelines" kind of union member. "I let the shop steward and other members do the work," Distance says. "All I would care about is opening the finished contract to the page about the money. That was good enough for me."

Young Verizon Worker Embraces Her New Union

Timothy Staples - her first name comes from a flowering grass - never had a union at work until she got a job last February at a Verizon call center in Salisbury, Md.

Standing with Verizon/Verizon Wireless Workers an Education for Kids and Grown-Ups

Kathy Hayes works for AT&T Mobility in Champaign, Ill., and Stan Wylie works for CenturyLink in Seattle, but it would be easy to mistake them lately for Verizon/Verizon Wireless workers.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and every other politician who spent 2011 beating up on public workers and slashing the services they provide should be forced to talk directly to people like Ellen Vidal.

A teacher turned social worker, Local 1088's Vidal assists mentally and physically disabled adults, then heads home to care for two adopted children who've had severe medical issues of their own. So has Vidal, who endured numerous surgeries after a bad root canal. For the better part of two years, she hung a bag of IV antibiotics from her blinds at work so she could infuse herself every four hours.

CWA Volunteers Fight Tirelessly to Overturn Ohio's Anti-Bargaining Law It?s because of CWAers like Diane Bailey and Barb Allen that petitions to repeal an anti-bargaining rights law in Ohio had to be hauled to the secretary of state's office in a semi-truck.