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Call it a tale of two companies: One looked to the future 10 years ago and started with just three workers making hybrid car batteries. Now 246 people work there, excited to be part of a ground-breaking venture that's paying them union-negotiated wages and benefits.

Among the whopping 1.6 million Americans added to the jobless rolls in the last year were CWA members at General Electric, Delphi, General Motors and other companies that shut down plants or customer service centers and moved work to cheap labor markets.

Of concern to union members with paid health benefits, John McCain is proposing that workers start paying income tax on the value of their health benefits, a plan that some experts say would lead companies to dump their employee coverage.

John McCain is reviving the Bush administration's proposal for at least partially privatizing Social Security, and has been criticizing the way the system has worked for 70 years.  At a town hall meeting in Denver in July, McCain declared:  "Americans have got to understand that we are