Support IBEW and CWA workers in their battle to hold the line against corporate greed

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

Here's a letter the wife of one of our union members posted on FaceBook. Dear Friends, My husband is one of the 45,000 unionized workers now ON STRIKE against VERIZON.  VERIZON is trying to dump pensions, gut health care benefits, eliminate job security and basically undo about 30 years of collective bargaining ...

Forgotten Where He Came From

Monday, March 24th, 2008

  The contract between Verizon and the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) that has kept labor peace at the communications giant for the last five years expires in August. The unions represent more than 70,000 workers at Verizon, and even though ...