Jul 26, 2012
It’s time to hold the powerful accountable. Time to target the One Percent who control Verizon and are holding workers’ lives hostage. Time to demand that Verizon’s Board of Directors and executives stop feeding the company’s outrageous greed.
Two top executives on the Verizon Board are Richard Carrión and Clarence Otis. They demonstrate just how far the tentacles of corporate greed reach, and how they’re squeezing the life out of Verizon employees. Both men earn a whopping $230,000— quadruple an average Verizon worker’s salary—for their duties on the Board, which amount to little more than a few meetings a year.
And yet they shirk their responsibility to workers. Both support brutal concessions from Verizon employees, while handing out raises and bonuses to executives.
Carrión and Otis run multi-million-dollar firms notorious for treating workers and consumers with disrespect. Carrión is president of Popular, Inc., a banking firm with offices from New York to Puerto Rico to Los Angeles. He’s now facing questions about corrupt business practices and failure to repay federal loans. Otis is CEO of Darden Restaurants, owner of Red Lobster, The Capital Grille, and Olive Garden. His workers are claiming unfair pay and racial discrimination.
We demand that these men be held accountable for Verizon’s actions and that they give workers the respect they have earned and deserve.
