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The $600 million tax windfall Verizon is due to receive in its proposed sale of telephone operations in northern New England, if invested in network upgrades, would be enough to provide high-speed Internet access to every residential customer in the company's service area, according to a new CWA report.

At a meeting in Philadelphia, CWA experts, legislative-political coordinators, district campaign coordinators and others met to build the union's grassroots political structure that will play a critical role in Election 2008. The key element of this program is the strategic health care campaign which will be a baseline for all of CWA's political activity.

Recognizing CWA's lead role in promoting the availability of high-speed Internet, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has named CWA Local 4321 President Frank Mathews to the newly-formed Ohio Broadband Council.

People who oppose true health care reform in the United States like to claim that Canada's national care system is a disaster for patients. That's a myth, says the Economic Policy Institute in its weekly economic snapshot.

Since we launched The Source, CWA’s website for union communicators, http://www.cwa-union.org/source, we have continued to update the website with more tools to help local union editors, webmasters, organizers and local leaders improve communications with members, the public and the news media.