Unity@Verizon Mobilization

Jan 26, 2012

New Message to Verizon: No Tax Dodging and No Union Busting

CWA members tell the story of how Verizon doesn't pay its share of taxes in a great new mobilization video.

Dec 16, 2011

Holiday Shoppers Get Verizon Message

Mobile billboards in seven Verizon cities will make sure holiday shoppers know all about Verizon and Verizon Wireless's corporate greed.

Nov 9, 2011

Verizon Workers March for the 99%

As Verizon continues to offer proposals aimed to destroy middle-class jobs and cut benefits, Verizon workers are hitting the streets. Verizon represents not just the 1%, but the top one-tenth of 1% in this country. The company�s five highest executives took home $258 million in salary and benefits over the last four years. Yet, Verizon paid no federal income taxes from 2008 to 2010 and instead received $951 million in tax rebates. On Thursday, November 10, the Verizon Workers' March for the 99% will set off for New York City from downtown Albany to shine a spotlight on the corporate greed run rampant at Verizon.

Oct 1, 2011

�It�s Cool to Be in a Union�

Young Verizon Worker Embraces Her New Union

Timothy Staples � her first name comes from a flowering grass � never had a union at work until she got a job last February at a Verizon call center in Salisbury, Md.

Oct 1, 2011

�We Have to Be There for Each Other�s Fights�

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

We’re Turning Up the Heat in our Fight for Middle Class Jobs at Verizon and Verizon Wireless

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 8, 2011

Battle for Fair Contract at Verizon Unites Local, Global Union Members

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 1, 2011

CWAers Keep Up Pressure on Verizon as Bargaining Resumes

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.

Aug 25, 2011

Verizon Workers End Walkout as Company Agrees to Bargain Fairly

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

Verizon Workers’ Battle Gets Big Boost from Online Videos

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 20, 2011

Elected officials supporting Verizon stike

Elected officials are joining pickets and standing with striking CWA and IBEW members from New England to southern Virginia.

Aug 18, 2011

Mobilization update: Retirees, Baltimore Ravens and Batman

The new Batman movie, �The Dark Knight Rises,� is being filmed in Pittsburgh near the Verizon office on 7th Avenue, forcing the pickets to scatter when the filming is going on. But the film directors have told members of Local 13500 that the all-union crews strongly support the union fight against Verizon.

Aug 18, 2011

CWA Files ULP Charges as Verizon Fails to Bargain in Good Faith

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.

Aug 18, 2011

As Verizon Strike Continues, Workers’ Struggle Gains Support Nationwide

Tens of thousands of working Americans, other unions, students, civil rights, religious, and community groups have joined union members' fight to get Verizon to bargain in good faith. More than 150,000 people so far have signed CWA's online petition, urging Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam to stop union-busting and negotiate fairly.

Aug 17, 2011

Stockton, CA mobilizes to support the Verizon strike

Local 9417 members and members of North Valley Labor Federation handed out leaflets at the Verizon store, 6123 Pacific Av, Stockton supporting CWA members ON STRIKE!

Aug 17, 2011

Cleveland shows its support for striking Verizon East

CWA Local 4340 members in Cleveland show their support for striking Verizon East members by picketing the Verizon Wireless store on Rockside Rd. in Cleveland on Thursday, August 11

Aug 17, 2011

Video: Verizon strike in Hudson Valley, NY

Members of CWA Local 1120 Strike Against Verizon in Hudson Valley, NY

Aug 17, 2011

Cockeysville, MD rallys for Verizon workers

Working people turned out in their hundreds at the Shawan Road rally Monday, 15 August in Cockeysville. Union supporters from APWU; Stagehands; AFSME; TNG/CWA were among the other unions attending.

Aug 17, 2011

Big steps on the picket line for Local 2108

One CWA Local 2108 member was keeping track of her steps on the picketline, using her handy pedometer. That's a lot of calories!

Aug 16, 2011

CWA District 9 VP Jim Weitkamp: Speech to the USW Annual Convention

Thank you, sisters and brothers, for allowing me to address you today. Your theme �Stand up, fight back� could not be more appropriate! The right wing in this country is bent on destroying collective bargaining, labor and the middle class in this country. Americans know inequality is on the rise but many are still not fully aware of the extent to which the landscape has changed.

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