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The bill produced so far by the Senate Finance Committee is a disaster for working families and retirees. Here's the worst of it: a 40 percent tax on employer health plans that cost $8,000 or more for individual plans and $21,000 or more for family coverage. This bad idea will hit active and retired CWAers hard.

CWA reaffirmed the need for U.S. telecom policy to combine the goals of ensuring an open Internet with encouraging investment in a 21st century broadband system, in response to a new initiative announced by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

UPTE-CWA members at the University of California held a one-day unfair labor practice strike that turned into a huge day of action, with thousands of students and faculty members supporting the fight against devastating budget cuts on campuses statewide.

It's a tale of two CWA members, a father of two working for ABC in the United States, a father of three working for the CBC in Canada. Chip Catherine, a member of NABET-CWA Local 52031, pays $1,100 a month for health insurance that only covers him. Colin Preston, a TNG Canada member, pays a monthly tax of $108 to cover his entire family. It's deducted from his check just like Social Security is here. He never worries about co-pays or deductibles and never fears losing his coverage because of a pre-existing condition.

Two CWAers are the new co-presidents of the national Pride at Work organization, an AFL-CIO group that fights for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The new co-presidents are Stan Kiino, a representative for AFA-CWA's United Airlines Council 11 in San Francisco and a graduate of CWA's Minority Leadership Institute, and Donna Cartwright, a Baltimore-based writer who was a member of The Newspaper Guild-CWA until her retirement from the New York Times. Cartwright is among the first transgender officers of a national LGBT organization.