On August 17th, the card check and neutrality agreement CWA negotiated with Verizon Wireless will expire. Verizon Wireless has never lived up to the letter or spirit of this agreement. Instead, management has actively and vocally opposed the unionization of wireless, intimidating union activists and inundating them with anti-union propaganda. Their anti-union campaign begins during new employee orientation and continues with e-mail messages, an anti-CWA website, and captive audience meetings.  Union activists have been singled out and fired. Other employees are afraid to voice their support for the union.  Verizon Wireless is shutting down two call centers where we have active organizing drives and is moving 1,000 jobs to North Carolina.  In addition, the 50 courageous Wireless workers who have CWA representation face almost daily harassment and intimidation from management.

Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg claims that Verizon Wireless is a separate entity which he does not run.  But Seidenberg not only heads the parent company, he’s also the chairman of the board of Wireless. He is responsible for this company and its treatment of employees.

Help our fellow CWA members and the 30,000 other employees at Verizon Wireless get a voice on the job by sending an email to Ivan Seidenberg, demanding that Wireless negotiate—and live up to—a real neutrality and card check agreement.