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SF Solidarity Picket With Striking CWA-IBEW Verizon Strikers

Date:
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Time:
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
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Location Details:
Solidarity picket for striking CWA-IBEW Verizon workers will be held on Tuesday August 9 at 12:00 noon at 768 Market St. San Francisco

8/9 SF Solidarity Picket With Striking CWA-IBEW Verizon Strikers

modernsara(at)gmail.com

Subject: (Act): Support Verizon Wireless workers" Picket tomorrow in SF + online actions

As many of you have probably already read, our CWA colleagues at Verizon East and Verizon Wireless are on strike.

Since bargaining began on June 22, Verizon has refused to move from a long list of concession demands. Even as the contract expired, Verizon, a $100 billion dollar company, still was looking for $1 billion in concessions from 45,000 workers and families. That’s about $20,000 in givebacks for every family.

This isn’t bargaining. It’s Verizon Greed at its worst.

While the bulk of the striking workers are on the East Coast, it's important for the company to know that this kind of behavior hurts their reputation nationwide.

Tomorrow we will gather for a lunchtime picket:

noon-1 p.m.
Tuesday Aug. 9
outside Verizon Wireless
768 Market Street
San Francisco

For reference, this store is quite close to the downtown Apple retail store.

We need all the bodies we can get! Please join us if you can and bring a friend!

A press release is pending.

* * *

If you can't make the picket but want to help:

Sign the online petition:
http://action.cwa-union.org/c/1153/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2657#.TkADb-DS_qY.facebook
*Bonus points for sharing the link on Facebook or Twitter!

Like the workers' Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/UnityatVerizon2011

Sign the act.ly petition via Twitter:
Petition @Verizon to meet the @CWAUnion demands in this labor dispute. #1u #p2 http://act.ly/432 RT to sign

Tweet something about the strike -- here's a nice message from Rainn Wilson of "The Office" that you could retweet:
RT @RainnWilson: @Verizon wants HUGE union concessions even though it made 6 billion in profit last year. Where's the outrage about that?

For those of you who like background info, here's a nice piece from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/business/in-verizon-strike-landlines-and-fios.html?ref=verizoncommunicationsinc
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