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While much of the attention in New Hampshire has been focused on today’s presidential primary and the horse race surrounding it, another historic event occurred there recently. Jesse Russell reports:

600 workers may not sound like a lot in the scheme of it all, but for a small state like New Hampshire when that many workers join a union at one time, it is historic. The last major one-time successful organizing campaign in New Hampshire was in 1966 when 950 workers organized at the Granite Rubber Company. Today, that honor belongs to workers at an AT&T call center in Dover, New Hampshire. The workers joined Communications Workers of America Local 1298. During the recent Democratic debates in New Hampshire, Senator John Edwards singled out AT&T as a company that acts as a good corporate citizen by allowing workers to organize and by providing good health care coverage. According to AT&T, more than 60 percent of the company’s workers across the country are in a union and the CWA represents some 180,000 of them.