CWA Leader Rallies Strike Support in NOVA
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Blasting Verizon's national
ad campaign calling for the elimination of 50 years of negotiated contracts, CWA
President Larry Cohen yesterday rallied over 300 “loud and proud union members
and their families” yesterday at the Broad Run High School in Ashburn VA,
reports NOVA Labor President Dan Duncan. Cohen “said this was clear battle to
save America's middle class,” adds Duncan. Also speaking at the rally were CWA
2222 President Jim Hilleary, Virginia AFL-CIO President Doris Crouse-Mays, and
CWA Vice President for Telecommunications and Technologies Ralph Maly. The
Asburn protest is just one of many
protests planned for this week.
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Matthew Fournier; photo by Joyce Putnam