Archive for the ‘unions’ Category
Sunday, August 7th, 2011
At this morning's Unity at Verizon conference call, IBEW Local 827 President Bill Huber said that company's plan is to "break the union."Â Â He said we have to fight the attacks on middle class jobs and that if we stick together, "We can and will prevail."
Myles Calvey IBEW Local 2222 ...
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Here's a Wall Street Journal piece about the strike.
Verizon's Wireline Unions Call for Strike as Deadline Passes
By GREG BENSINGER
Unions for Verizon Communications Inc. called on 45,000 workers to walk off the job early this morning after negotiators failed to reach an agreement on a new contract by a ...
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Big shot CEO of Verizon, Lowell McAdam, sent the police and lackeys from Verizon security out to meet protesters from IBEW Local 827 when they dropped by to see him on Saturday morning. The Mendham cops, who are obviously trained well by the millionaires who inhabit the town, would only ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
Most of the propaganda spewing from the various Verizon corporate mouth pieces about the contract dispute centers around the cost of health care. Well if Verizon really cared about the cost of health care it would support a single payer or Medicare for all system like most civilized countries have. ...
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
The Verizon bosses are getting scared.  Union workers, on the other hand,  are getting ready to rumble. With only a few days left before the contract with IBEW and CWA union members expires, Verizon brought out the heavy artillery (at least by wealthy suburban standards) to “protect†its posh corporate ...
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Verizon workers in the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) and CWA (Communication Workers of America) rallied for good union jobs on Saturday July 30. They demand that the profitable and highly subsidized telcom company stop trying to take workers’ conditions back to the 19th century.
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
We stand on the shoulders of giants -- the thousands and millions of working people who through the years and centuries have toiled and battled to win for us the many fruits of labor that we now see as simply standard. Our history -- the progression of working people from ...
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
That’s no thermometer, friend. Look over your shoulder and you will see a familiar smirking face. Yes, that’s right, it’s your union boss holding the tub of lubrication and watching exuberantly as the company boss gives it to you good.
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Here in IBEW Local 827, the foreplay between the ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
So it looks like we have avoided a strike at Verizon. Both The Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) have extended the current contract while they continue to discuss the issues.
The scuttlebutt is that we’re looking at a four-year contract and maybe ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
As the clock ticks down toward a strike Verizon negotiators continue to claim that the IBEW and CWA unions’ demands are unreasonable, even though Verizon is raking in more money than this time last year. Revenue rose 3.7 percent this quarter totaling $24.12 billion. The communication ...
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