Mesa/Freedom/Go! flight attendants have ratified a two-year contract that raises salaries, improves work rules and lays a foundation for the next round of negotiations in 2012.

CWA is continuing to press for NLRB nominees Craig Becker and Mark Pearce to be confirmed as soon as possible, with a recess appointment from President Obama if necessary.

With just two active members now on the NLRB, "thousands of fired workers can get no justice and hundreds of thousands have no bargaining rights as every critical case at the national level is frozen," said CWA President Larry Cohen. (The EZ Pass story in this issue is just one example of how workplace justice has been blocked.)

CWA's Customer Service Advocate Committee is up and running, with members representing customer service work across CWA sectors – wireless and wireline telecommunications, public sector, airlines and the newspaper industry.

CWA and allies like Free Press are working together to save quality journalism and the democracy it protects.

"We're losing 1,000 newsroom employees every month, and we've lost 30,000 over the last two years," John Nichols of The Nation said during a discussion with CWA and TNG-CWA staff and officers. "And that's come after the culling out of radio and television. Roughly 20,000 people are no longer on the air."