Monday, September 5th, 2011
Pay no taxes and lay people off , are companies like Verizon the the type of entities we need leading our economy?  As long as we allow this type of shit, working people are doomed. The information below about Verizon comes from a report on executive compensation and tax dodging ...
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Hey Verizon bosses, this fight ain't over it's only just begun. That wasn't the fat lady you heard singing it was Fatso Christie in drag. The fat slob governor and Verizon's effete elite exec Lowell McGreedy are neighbors who live in, that cesspool of ruling class vermin, Mendham, NJ.
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
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With the "great power" of their "superior" intellect and imaginations -- diluted, unfortunately, by blue blood inbreeding -- the Verizon bosses have reached into their billion dollar bag of tricks and come up with a brilliant plan -- divide and conquer. ...
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Don't worry about hurricanes. Hedge funds buying up farmland all over the world are way more troublesome than the weather.  You remember hedge funds. They're some of the folks who brought us the "housing crisis." These titans of industry are betting that food shortages will mean big profits, and so ...
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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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