F Street Verizon Store Target of National Day of Action Today

Friday, September 30, 2011

F Street Verizon Store Target of National Day of Action Today(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.”

 

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