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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Saturday, October 8th, 2011
Good things come to those who wait. You've heard that saying right? Well since so many of us working folks have been asleep for so many years while our wages have been sinking and benefits have been stolen away by bosses, Wall Street, health insurance bandits soon all those jobs ...
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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, August 16th, 2011
New Yorkers tax dollars should not go towards union busting or corrupt contracts!
Picket and Protest: August 17 @5pm.
Outside of the hearing at Murry Bergtraum High School.
Details below.
On Wednesday, August 17, the Department of Education's Panel for Education Policy will vote on whether to approve a $120 million ...
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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 ...
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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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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
I try not to hate people. It really is a lot of wasted energy in most cases, but there is one small sector of society that I just can’t seem to find much love for.  I have a hard time seeing that great universal energy flow that ...
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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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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Verizon representatives and union leaders from the CWA (Communications Workers of America) and IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) have been negotiating a new contract for several months. It’s coming down to crunch time now. The agreement expires August 2, but all the talking has produced very little ...
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