The Union Advocate writes about the Guild's campaign to save its bargaining unit at The Catholic Spirit newspaper, a union the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is determined to dissolve when the current contract expires at the end of this month.

A Herald editorial slams the state -- with the exception of Miami-Dade County -- for gross failure to protect workers from wage theft. " The editorial says, "A ranking by the Progressive States Network found that 'Florida has exactly zero laws on the books that would incentivize employers to stay honest.' And when it comes to holding employees accountable to their employees with such measures as notice of wages and paydays and pay stubs with each pay period, F'lorida held the shameful honor of scoring 0, a score that only Alabama and Mississippi — two states that have never had wage and hour laws — can also share.'"

"Understandably, some liberals are searching for ways to arrest the economic decline of the majority of their fellow Americans in a post-union environment. I fear they’re bound to be frustrated," Harold Meyerson writes. "If workers can’t bargain with their employers, it can’t be done. If and when Big Labor dies — it’s on life support now — America’s big middle class dies with it."

After a year-long fight with the most anti-union governor in the history of their collective bargaining agreement, CWA-represented public workers have ratified a contract that preserves the integrity and enforceability of decades of bargaining. Photo: CWA members and allies held numerous rallies to fight for a fair contract and against devastating budget cuts.