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Vol. 79/No. 44 December 7, 2015
Verizon unionists rally against concession demands
Stand Up to Verizon
NEW YORK — Chanting, “What’s disgusting? Union busting!” hundreds of
members of the Communications Workers of America who work at Verizon and
other unionists rallied and marched here Nov. 19, protesting concession
contract demands by the telecommunications giant. Similar protests took
place across the state and in New Jersey, Virginia and elsewhere. The
contract covering 39,000 members of the CWA and the Internatonal
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in nine states from Massachusetts to
Virginia and the District of Columbia expired Aug. 1. Union members
continue to work under the old contract.
Verizon, which posted third-quarter net revenues of $4.04 billion, is
demanding increased health care contributions, concessions on pensions
and elimination of accident and sickness disability coverage.
“It’s not going good,” Efren Alvarez, 40, an installer of high-speed
FiOS Internet service, told the Militant. “More than three months and
the company won’t budge.”
— MAGGIE TROWE
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