Workers Target Verizon's Poor Service Thursday
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Verizon workers and DC residents will hit the streets of downtown DC early
Thursday morning to demand the DC Public Service Commission (PSC) hold Verizon
accountable for its poor service and refusal to invest in DC. The rally is
taking place outside a closed PSC hearing on a recent settlement between Verizon
and DC officials that the Connect-DC Coalition calls a
“substandard agreement with false solutions to serious quality of service
complaints.” “In the last 3 years Verizon has closed most of its service
centers in the District and moved a third of its jobs out of the city,” says
DC Jobs with Justice organizer Ruth Castel-Branco. “And now, instead of making
a real investment in infrastructure and staffing, Verizon has decided to
scape-goat its workers for its service problems.”