Workers demonstrate outside Verizon Store in Roseville

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5179

By Michael Moore
22 March 2012

ROSEVILLE - Workers and their supporters from across the Twin Cities staged a demonstration outside the Verizon Store in Roseville Thursday afternoon as part of the Communications Workers of America’s “Verizon National Day of Action.” The demonstration drew more than 30 people, who held signs and banners warning consumers about Verizon's corporate greed.

About 45,000 union members at Verizon, based on the East Coast, have been working without a contract since the previous agreement with the company expired in August 2011, resulting in a two-week strike.

Workers called off the strike when Verizon agreed to abide by the terms of the previous agreement while negotiating a new one. But so far, those negotiations have gone nowhere, with the company insisting on steep concessions from its workers, including cuts to their health care insurance and pension plans – even benefits for job-related injuries.



Although Verizon claims it cannot afford the benefits provided in the current union contract, the truth is the company is turning record profits.

FULL story at link.

[Nevernose]

1. Way to go!

[qb]

2. I support the workers, and I'm glad I dumped Verizon

for a pay-by-the-minute company.