Today, 45000 Verizon employees, from Massachusetts to Virginia, are on strike. Why?
If there’s one thing our economy needs now, it’s good jobs with stable benefits. But Verizon is doing their best to make those a thing of the past.
Rather than bargain in good faith with their employees, Verizon management is demanding unprecedented concessions: the company wants to slash paid sick days, eliminate benefits for workers hurt on the job, and cut the health care benefits they promised to retirees. They’re even pushing a proposal to allow them to send more jobs overseas.
The workers are Verizon are standing up. For themselves, and for everyone else. Just like the workers and citizens in Wisconsin did.
They need our support. Please join us in calling on Verizon management to bargain in good faith. Nothing more, but nothing less, either. Here’s the link:
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1306/t/12057/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4585
Verizon is one of the most profitable corporations in America. They make money hand over fist: $19 billion in profits the last four years, and over a quarter of a billion in pay for their top five executives. It’s an unreal amount of money. The workers deserve to share in the productivity gains that they help deliver.
But now Verizon is negotiating like the Tea Party, where compromise is a dirty word and the goal is to make a few people incredibly wealthy while tens of thousands get the shaft.
The American economy is in a serious crisis. Verizon is trying to take advantage of the crisis by lowering the living-standards of its employees and thus increase its profits. We can’t let that happen.
The workers are right to stand up. Let’s stand with them.
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1306/t/12057/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4585