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In 2001, public sector union leader Hector Giraldo fled Colombia under a death threat. After seeing his union president gunned down by paramilitaries, he spent a year in the United States, spreading the word to trade unionists and others about the horrors union members face in his country.

Honoring the memory of Ed Spillet, a NABET-CWA staff representative who died of juvenile diabetes last December, CWA headquarters employees joined District 2 locals and Verizon workers for Washington, D.C.'s Walk to Cure Diabetes in May. Walkers included CWA Pres. Morton Bahr.

As public support for President Bush's Social Security privatization scheme plummets, Republican leaders in Congress are quietly talking about plans to raise the retirement age to 69, among other sacrifices they want working Americans to make.

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.