Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
This Friday evening, Oct. 21, together with Occupy Wall Street, Verizon and Verizon Wireless workers will march to protest Verizon corporate greed. Please join us.
We will assemble at 140 West Street between 4 and 5 p.m., march east on Barclay Street and then down Broadway. We should ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Fists in the air and voices raised union rebels from the AFL-CIO Nextup11 Young Workers Summit occupied a Verizon Wireless store in Roosevelt, Minn on Saturday.  The militant action which lasted about 45 minutes shocked the store manager.
The workers demanded that Verizon bosses settle the current contract dispute and share ...
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Like my man FlavaFlav says so well, "Don't believe the Hy-y-y-ya-ipe."Â VP Joe Biden gave a rousing speech Labor Day trying to trick us poor working people into believing one more time that the Democrats are going to help unions fight the terrorist tactics of the bosses and their courts ...
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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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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Here's a Labor Notes review of a new book Reviving the Strike by Joe Burns. Also watch interview with Thom Hartman from YouTube. Burns argues that we must go back to the traditional strike where labor shut down production even if that requires mass civil disobedience against unjust labor laws.
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REVIEW: ...
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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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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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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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