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As bargaining with Verizon reconvened in Rye, N.Y., this week for 35,000 CWA members and 10,000 more at IBEW, negotiators went back to the table with a clear message: workers will not allow the company to destroy their collective bargaining rights or decades of hard-won progress made in past negotiations.

Twenty-five of America's richest CEOs took home more pay last year than their companies paid in federal income taxes, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies.

In response to consumer concerns throughout the District, on August 26, 2011, OPC filed a petition asking the DC Public Service Commission to convene a comprehensive review of Verizon DC's quality of service. "We have received numerous complaints from consumers in Wards 4, 6, and other areas, including complaints forwarded to OPC from Council members' offices relating consumer frustration with poor quality service and restoration response," said People's Counsel Sandra Mattavous-Frye.

As 45,000 Verizon workers go back to work, CNNMoney talks to one family who's been fighting for the labor movement for forty years.