Archive for August, 2011
Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Here's a Wall Street Journal piece about the strike.
Verizon's Wireline Unions Call for Strike as Deadline Passes
By GREG BENSINGER
Unions for Verizon Communications Inc. called on 45,000 workers to walk off the job early this morning after negotiators failed to reach an agreement on a new contract by a ...
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Just got the word that the strike is on. Kick the bosses in the ass. Power to the working class!!!!!!
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Big shot CEO of Verizon, Lowell McAdam, sent the police and lackeys from Verizon security out to meet protesters from IBEW Local 827 when they dropped by to see him on Saturday morning. The Mendham cops, who are obviously trained well by the millionaires who inhabit the town, would only ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
Most of the propaganda spewing from the various Verizon corporate mouth pieces about the contract dispute centers around the cost of health care. Well if Verizon really cared about the cost of health care it would support a single payer or Medicare for all system like most civilized countries have. ...
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
The Verizon bosses are getting scared.  Union workers, on the other hand,  are getting ready to rumble. With only a few days left before the contract with IBEW and CWA union members expires, Verizon brought out the heavy artillery (at least by wealthy suburban standards) to “protect†its posh corporate ...
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
We need jobs with a living wage and the 6 hour work day not austerity. Here's a good piece that points out why.
With all the focus on the drama surrounding the debt ceiling, and the much-too-late focus on the economic pain the final deal's austerity agenda will inflict, ...
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
Good story from The Nation about who will benefit and be hurt by the budget /debt deal. Guess what? Workers and the poor are getting screwed, and the Masters of the Universe will get off scot-free.
Congress (might) pass a debt deal [1] this week that would raise the debt ceiling ...
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