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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.

On the heels of testimony that Delta and Northwest airlines may soon join United in defaulting on employee pensions, AFA-CWA President Pat Friend told a roomful of senators and executives in June that the "human dimension" is being overshadowed by company finances.

With at least one major union threatening to leave the AFL-CIO, President John Sweeney said he is pursuing a dialogue with dissident union leaders over a policy dispute and working to try to keep the federation together as he formally announced his candidacy for a new term.