Billy Bragg Sings, There is Power in a Union.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011Check out Billy Bragg singing, There is Power in a Union [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ddngGdsCf8[/youtube]
Check out Billy Bragg singing, There is Power in a Union [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ddngGdsCf8[/youtube]
Stand with Verizon workers
Monday, August 8th, 2011New York Working Families Party is circulating a letter for people to sign to support striking Verizon workers. Â To sign it click here. Despite record profits, Verizon is demanding unprecedented concessions and giveback from its workers. So today, 45,000 Verizon workers are now on strike to stop the attack on ...
Support IBEW and CWA workers in their battle to hold the line against corporate greed
Sunday, August 7th, 2011Here's a letter the wife of one of our union members posted on FaceBook. Dear Friends, My husband is one of the 45,000 unionized workers now ON STRIKE against VERIZON. VERIZON is trying to dump pensions, gut health care benefits, eliminate job security and basically undo about 30 years of collective bargaining ...
We are “fighting against greed.”
Sunday, August 7th, 2011At this morning's Unity at Verizon conference call, IBEW Local 827 President Bill Huber said that company's plan is to "break the union."Â Â He said we have to fight the attacks on middle class jobs and that if we stick together, "We can and will prevail." Myles Calvey IBEW Local 2222 ...
Verizon Workers are Ready to Rumble
Thursday, August 4th, 2011The 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 ...
Who will Benefit and be Hurt by the Budget /Debt Deal
Monday, August 1st, 2011Good 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 ...
Union jobs with Living Wage for All
Sunday, July 31st, 2011Verizon workers in the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) and CWA (Communication Workers of America) rallied for good union jobs on Saturday July 30. They demand that the profitable and highly subsidized telcom company stop trying to take workers’ conditions back to the 19th century. [caption id="attachment_77" align="aligncenter" width="487" caption="Workers ...
Forgotten Where He Came From
Monday, March 24th, 2008The contract between Verizon and the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) that has kept labor peace at the communications giant for the last five years expires in August. The unions represent more than 70,000 workers at Verizon, and even though ...
