Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
I doubt this effete elite blue blood wimp will show up, but let's all stop by anyway. I have to admit a candlelight vigil is pretty lame, but what can you expect from AFL-CIO leadership. Here's the info from AFL-CIO
All of us need to stand together and stand strong ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
This is a message to Lowell McAdam and the rest of the elite effete execs at Verizon. Our day is dawning. The working class will rise and you will be crushed, then swept into the ash bin of history.
As Captain Jean-Luc Picard says in the Star Trek the Next Generation ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
New Yorkers tax dollars should not go towards union busting or corrupt contracts!
Picket and Protest: August 17 @5pm.
Outside of the hearing at Murry Bergtraum High School.
Details below.
On Wednesday, August 17, the Department of Education's Panel for Education Policy will vote on whether to approve a $120 million ...
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
High school students came out to 540 Broad Street in Newark. The Verizon strikers cheered when they walked up and joined their picket line. Working class unity will defeat the bosses' terror. Thanks to theses students who clearly understand what's at stake for all students and workers in this strike.
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
Here'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 ...
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
At 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 ...
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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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Monday, January 11th, 2010
We stand on the shoulders of giants -- the thousands and millions of working people who through the years and centuries have toiled and battled to win for us the many fruits of labor that we now see as simply standard. Our history -- the progression of working people from ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Verizon representatives and union leaders from the CWA (Communications Workers of America) and IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) have been negotiating a new contract for several months. It’s coming down to crunch time now. The agreement expires August 2, but all the talking has produced very little ...
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