Oct 1, 2011
Standing with Verizon/Verizon Wireless Workers an Education for Kids and Grown-Ups
Kathy Hayes works for AT&T Mobility in Champaign, Ill., and Stan Wylie works for CenturyLink in Seattle, but it would be easy to mistake them lately for Verizon/Verizon Wireless workers.
Oct 1, 2011
TAKE ACTION — MOVEMENT BUILDING
“We need to look for opportunities to link to other fights in our communities. We need to connect them, from Hyatt Hotels to Verizon stores to the postal workers’ campaign. If we’re there for each other, we all start winning. It’s all about building a movement. We can’t hope for it, we can’t wait for it. We have to fight for it.” — CWA President Larry Cohen
Sep 28, 2011
Verizon and Verizon Wireless – along with millions of tech geeks worldwide – are eagerly anticipating the release of the iPhone 5. Now is the time to ramp up our mobilization for a fair contract!
Sep 22, 2011
Sign up now to take part in next Thursday's Verizon update call, when national and district CWA leaders will provide the latest information and take your questions.
Sep 8, 2011
Showing Verizon and downtown Washington, D.C., what solidarity looks like, 500 CWA, AFSCME and UNI Global Union members marched and rallied Wednesday in support of Verizon workers fighting for a fair contract.
Sep 7, 2011
CWA has begun running advertisements to highlight the critical role the Verizon workers played in restoring vital services following the attack. Many of these workers have suffered serious health issues related to the work they did in the following days, weeks and months. Verizon - a corporation already making billions in profits each year - now wants to punish those and other workers by eliminating sick days and forcing workers to pay thousands of dollars a year in health care costs.
Sep 2, 2011
For working families, this Labor Day brings a continued free fall from the middle class standard of living that American workers once enjoyed.
Sep 1, 2011
As bargaining with Verizon reconvened in Rye, N.Y., this week for 35,000 CWA members and 10,000 more at IBEW, negotiators went back to the table with a clear message: workers will not allow the company to destroy their collective bargaining rights or decades of hard-won progress made in past negotiations.
Sep 1, 2011
Twenty-five of America's richest CEOs took home more pay last year than their companies paid in federal income taxes, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies.
Aug 31, 2011
In response to consumer concerns throughout the District, on August 26, 2011, OPC filed a petition asking the DC Public Service Commission to convene a comprehensive review of Verizon DC's quality of service. "We have received numerous complaints from consumers in Wards 4, 6, and other areas, including complaints forwarded to OPC from Council members' offices relating consumer frustration with poor quality service and restoration response," said People's Counsel Sandra Mattavous-Frye.
Aug 25, 2011
As 45,000 Verizon workers go back to work, CNNMoney talks to one family who's been fighting for the labor movement for forty years.
Aug 25, 2011
Verizon workers returned to work this week stronger than ever in their fight for a fair contract, fortified by the bravery they showed in striking during a recession and by the public's strong embrace of their courage and solidarity.
Aug 25, 2011
When Verizon workers went on strike in 2000, it was five years before anyone had heard of YouTube. Fast forward to 2011 and dozens of amateur and professional videographers are helping CWA members tell their story on YouTube and other social networking sites where videos are posted.
Aug 25, 2011
Inspired by picketers outside a Verizon building in his Queens, N.Y., neighborhood, professional songwriter John Beltzer gathered his team last week and within two days they'd written and produced, "Can You Hear Us Now?"
Aug 21, 2011
Read the Return to Work Agreements reached August 19, 2011.
Aug 20, 2011
CWA calls out Verizon's Marc Reed for issuing "inaccurate and insulting" comment about contract negotiations.
Aug 20, 2011
Members of CWA and IBEW at Verizon Communications will return to work on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at which time the contract will be back in force for an indefinite period. We have reached agreement with Verizon on how bargaining will proceed and how it will be restructured. The major issues remain to be discussed, but overall, issues now are focused and narrowed.
Aug 19, 2011
Verizon is still demanding cuts in compensation of $20,000 per worker per year. Read more.
Aug 18, 2011
With the strike at Verizon now in its 13th day, 45,000 members of CWA and IBEW remain determined to stay out as long as it takes to get the company to bargain in good faith with their union bargaining teams.
