Carols - and Coal - for Verizon
Friday, December 16, 2011
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Holiday carolers serenaded Verizon board member Rodney Slater yesterday with new
words to an old favorite: “On the Twelfth
Day of Christmas, Verizon gave to me: Profits over people, less respect for
workers, more corporate greed, less health insurance, dividends for
stockholders, cutting our pensions, billions in profits, OUT-SOURCING JOBS,
unfairly fired workers, dishonest bargaining, a cut in starting pay, and a few
million for the CEO!” Activists from CWA, other unions, Jobs with
Justice and the Occupy movement sang carols about corporate greed outside
Slater's downtown DC office Thursday afternoon. Slater, U.S. Secretary of
Transportation under President Bill Clinton, made $219,000 last year as a
Verizon board director and helped stuff the stockings of the company's top five
executives with a cool $258 million over the last four years, earning Slater and
his Verizon board colleagues a lump of coal from the protestors. - report/photo courtesy of CWA