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How much would it cost to reform the nation's badly broken health care system to expand coverage to the uninsured while improving medical care for everyone?

Nothing.

CWA members turned out in Meriden, Conn., June 1 to press for workers' rights at Verizon Wireless and to rally around Kara DeWitt, who was fired by the company for taking too much sick leave for herself and two young daughters while her husband was serving in Iraq.

After extracting billions of dollars in concessions from union workers, the 23 top executives at bankrupt US Airways shamelessly decided to hand themselves fat severance packages on top of all the bonuses and perks they already enjoyed.

Researchers and technical workers on all nine campuses of the University of California walked off the job and onto the picket line for a day in May, demanding that the university free up available funds for raises to stem an alarming turnover rate of 33 percent.

Local 3871, representing 333 Sprint workers in Tennessee and Virginia, has become the third local to take a strike vote in the 2005 round of Sprint bargaining—almost three months before contract expiration.