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Currently, workers are back on the job and management has said they will come to the bargaining table. Read below for some back ground information and click on items in the right column for current news. (for a brief summary, see "What it's all about" below)
August 26, 2011
Verizon strike has bigger lessons for U.S. economy
By Larry Cohen, President of the Communications Workers of America - 08/25/11 10:15 AM ET
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Find
more information on CWA national website:
What
it’s all about (brief summary)
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. . Despite
record profits, Verizon is refusing to bargain and is demanding that its
workers add to those profits from their own pockets.
. . . In the last four years alone, Verizon made more than $19 billion in profits and compensated their top five executives more than a quarter of a billion dollars. But apparently that’s not enough.
. . . In the last four years alone, Verizon made more than $19 billion in profits and compensated their top five executives more than a quarter of a billion dollars. But apparently that’s not enough.
Now
they’re refusing to bargain. Starting on June 22 Verizon pushed
proposals that would let them outsource more jobs, including sending jobs
overseas, slash sick days, eliminate benefits for workers who get hurt
on the job and cut the healthcare benefits they promised retirees. And
they haven’t budged.
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. . That’s
why 45,000 CWA and IBEW members walked out on Sunday August 7th to force
Verizon to abandon its Wisconsin-style tactics and come to the bargaining
table and negotiate.
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. . America
has had enough of corporate greed. Now is the time for Verizon to do the
right thing and come to the bargaining table in good faith instead of
trying to kill the American dream for 45,000 middle-class workers.