Here’s what caught my eye this morning:

• CWA and the IBEW might be headed for a strike against Verizon. If you want to read a detailed update, it’s here; this morning there is a short update issued a few minutes ago that says: "Bargaining continued until 10:30 p.m. last evening. We continue making progress on complex issues. Teams are reconvening the morning." Oh, yeah, Verizon’s CEO Ivan G. Seidenberg "raked in $26,553,576 in total compensation according to the SEC," according the AFL-CIO’s executive pay database.

• If you thought the mortgage crisis was over its worst moments, think again. The Wall Street Journal has an article (subscribers only) that leads with this sobering bit of info:

Mortgages issued in the first part of 2007 are going bad at a pace that far outstrips the 2006 vintage, suggesting that the blow to the financial system from U.S. housing woes will be deeper than many people earlier estimated.

• 1199/SEIU is looking to get employers for home health aides to let go of some of the state money employers are pocketing. If no deal, there might be a strike.
• First Joba, now A-Rod. Even avowed Yankee-haters have to have sympathy…maybe not…

   And, now, time to cause some havoc.