New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse reports on the tentative agreement with Verizon, covering 45,000 workers represented by CWA and the IBEW. The four-year deal includes an 8 percent pay raise, although workers will pay more for their health coverage. It preserves pensions for existing workers but will provide 401(k) plans, with a substantial company match, for new hires. CWA President Larry Cohen tells Greenhouse that, "We've maintained our living standards in this contract... We held our own."

The Chicago Teachers Union picked up 16,000 new Facebook fans since the strike began, and as blogger Andrew Gill says, "As the administrator of a Facebook page, I can attest that is a very enviable traffic graph." CTU's social media expert is Kenzo Shibata, who says the the success isn't an accident -- that they've been training members for months: "We have focused a lot of attention on social media through this strike. We knew that we could not rely completely on traditional media to tell the story, so we empowered our members to become citizen journalists on the ground."