What happens when your union-friendly employer merges with an antiunion company?  If you were a Pennsylvania CWA cable worker, it meant a five-year battle to get a first contract and a continuing fight to get another one. That's if you weren't fired or laid off after cable operations shifted from AT&T to Comcast. Interview by Leo Canty. Video by Randy Croce.

  Newspapers and their workers are seeking ways to increase revenue in an industry wracked by declining readership, shrinking ad revenues, the merciless onslaught of new technologies, and the Great Recession.  Newspaper Guild members at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette hope a new web subscription service will help.  

Pittsburgh has many bridges crossing over its three rivers, but the North Shore Connector -- a subway extension planned for completion in 2011 -- is the first to cross under, connecting downtown with the ballparks. Take a video walking tour of the work under construction. Video by Randy Lyman.

VIDEO: Amid the rolling hills, rural farms and church steeples of Western Pennsylvania, it may not appear they are on the cutting edge of technology, but growing from this spot is a new model for union green jobs and sustainable energy made possible by the United Steelworkers (USW), Gamesa and legislative action.