F Street Verizon Store Target of National Day of Action Today
Friday, September 30, 2011
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)CWA & IBEW’s two-week strike in August showed Verizon and Verizon Wireless
that it could not keep stonewalling at the bargaining table. Jobs with Justice
is ramping things up with a national Day of Action today, including a noon
leafleting/demo at the F Street Verizon Wireless store in downtown DC. Several
concessionary demands have been removed from the table, including their demand
to slash MLK Birthday and Veterans Day as holidays and to eliminate the special
city allowance. Now workers are bargaining from CWA’s proposals to save money
on health care without premium sharing and preventing unilateral management
changes in health care at Verizon Wireless. And union members are forcing
management to focus on their demand to bring thousands of outsourced and
off-shored jobs back into the bargaining unit. “There has been progress, but
Verizon is still insisting on hundreds of millions in concessions,” says JWJ,
“It’s time to step up the pressure.”