Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Ever wonder what all those sneaky little fees are doing on your phone bill. Well guess what, it's the telecom companies playing paddy cake with the FCC and other government agencies. More subsidies for the one percent. Here's a good piece from AlterNet by David Rosen and Bruce Kushnick.
As a ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
IBEW 827 joined People's Organization for Progress (POP) at their daily mobilization for jobs,peace,justice, and equality. Occupy Newark members also attended. POP is leading the working class by rallying everyday since June 27, 2011. They are commemorating the Montgomery bus boycott and will continue until they ...
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Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Verizon workers occupied 11-11 on Friday at the OccupyWallStreet encampment in lower Manhattan. Â They came to drop a dime on the Telecom behemoth, to let the public know that Verizon is the poster child of corporate greed.
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Toting signs ...
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
West Street in New York City rocked with the rhythms of worker's power on Friday night as about 1000 Verizon workers and their allies rallied to stand up for the 99 percent and to say no to corporate greed. The Verizon building at 140 West Street feeds much of financial ...
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
This Friday evening, Oct. 21, together with Occupy Wall Street, Verizon and Verizon Wireless workers will march to protest Verizon corporate greed. Please join us.
We will assemble at 140 West Street between 4 and 5 p.m., march east on Barclay Street and then down Broadway. We should ...
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
It's October, the apples are ripe on the trees and the time is ripe to throw wood on the fire of class struggle. The country's ablaze with working people who are scorching mad about the corporate class' s burning desire to squeeze every last dime out of our pockets. OccupyWallStreet ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Fists in the air and voices raised union rebels from the AFL-CIO Nextup11 Young Workers Summit occupied a Verizon Wireless store in Roosevelt, Minn on Saturday.  The militant action which lasted about 45 minutes shocked the store manager.
The workers demanded that Verizon bosses settle the current contract dispute and share ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
I hear a lot of people -- mostly white folks, but not exclusively -- say that “Hey slavery ended 150 years ago. It’s time to move on.† While there is a little truth in this statement, there is also a profound misconception. The racist legacy of slavery lives on in ...
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Like my man FlavaFlav says so well, "Don't believe the Hy-y-y-ya-ipe."Â VP Joe Biden gave a rousing speech Labor Day trying to trick us poor working people into believing one more time that the Democrats are going to help unions fight the terrorist tactics of the bosses and their courts ...
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
After reading this Labor Notes story about what it's like to work at Walmart. I'm glad I stopped shopping there.
How Walmart Trains Managers
By Adrian Campbell Montgomery
Created Aug 31 2011 - 3:07pm
The brave Walmart workers who belong to OUR Walmart [1] say fear is the main thing stopping their fellow ...
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