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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Paterson, NJ is a town rich in working class history. In the early part of the 20th Century it was one of the most important textile centers in the US. The 1913 Paterson Strike pitted 20,000 silk mill workers against the owners of 300 mills. The strike was lead by ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
I have to agree with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on this one.  This Labor Day we need to party less and protest more. With the real unemployment rate at 17% and attacks on workers growing like cornstalks in farm country, we need to stand firm and say, "We won't ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
I vote for this guy to be the new CEO -- at least he knows how the network works.
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Saturday, August 20th, 2011
I applaud the valiant effort of the workers who were on strike against Verizon, waging this decisive battle in this period of decaying capitalism. We had the odds stacks against us: the multi-billions of the corporate class and their bought and paid for mouth pieces in the media. The bosses’ ...
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Saturday, August 20th, 2011
Not sure I agree with this, but it's a nice little video. And there is no doubt that the scab managers couldn't get the job done. Enjoy.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuM4dtitnRQ&feature=youtu.be&a[/youtube]
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Saturday, August 20th, 2011
Workers from IBEW and CWA will return to work on Tuesday August 23. No contract agreement has been reached but the union workers were able to put enough pressure on the corporate flunkies on Verizon's side of the negotiating table to make these pinheads blink and start talking seriously.
Up until ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
N Y Times reporter Steven Greenhouse talks to Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now.  Most of Greenhouse's reporting on the strike has been weak and relies far too much on company lies and propaganda. But this interview is better than much of what he's written.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE9MYNWPuAg[/youtube]
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Here's the latest article from Labor Notes
Verizon Cuts Off Strikers’ Health Care, as Service Outages Rise
Noisy picket lines are turning away customers at Verizon’s wireless stores as the largest strike in the country weathered a rainy second week. Some service was disrupted throughout the Northeast though the ...
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Here's a story from Labor Notes
Mischa Gaus
August 11, 2011
Verizon’s strike in the Northeast is into Day Five, and big picket lines are turning away customers at Verizon’s wireless stores.
Injunctions could threaten one of the union’s most effective tactics, mass picketing at stores. But another—mobile picketing—is causing havoc for ...
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Since the contract negotiations with CWA and IBEW unions started, the corporate mouthpieces from Verizon have been telling many lies as big as Paul Bunyan’s underwear, but the biggest whopper of all is that there are two different networks in the telecom industry, a “wireless†and a “wire line.â€Â In ...
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