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With four of five seats now filled at the National Labor Relations Board, chair Wilma Liebman said the NLRB would seek a more "dynamic" approach to interpreting the nation's labor laws to help "reinvigorate collective bargaining" in the workplace.

At a national conference on collective bargaining in higher education, Liebman faulted the "static" approach to the law that the NLRB took during the Bush administration, which "had the effect of removing more and more employees from the protections of the law, especially vulnerable contingent workers."

What a difference real labor law makes! Following the joint news conference in Bonn, Germany, with CWA and ver.di, the union representing German workers at Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile, newspaper accounts in Germany criticized DT for the "climate of fear" it has allowed to continue at T-Mobile USA operations.

"That this is about Deutsche Telekom employees in the United States – as the professor of a study reliably confirmed – is very strange. Especially since the corporation from Bonn diligently polished its employer image in this country," one newspaper wrote.

CWAers at Verizon West are keeping up mobilization and their strong bargaining support as union and company negotiators go head to head over key issues of compensation and the outsourcing and offshoring of jobs.

"Progress has been unacceptably slow," said District 9 Vice President Jim Weitkamp. "Just as Verizon continues to abandon its customers and quality service as it moves away from landline part of its operations, it is abandoning the workers and communities that helped Verizon grow and meet its bottom line."