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Tell Verizon: When You Take On One of Us, You Take on All of Us
 Over 300 CWA members in New York
are on strike against Verizon Information Services. These
Yellow Pages sales reps walked out and began an Unfair Labor
Practice (ULP) strike on October 31 because Verizon has refused
to bargain in good faith.
This is just another attempt by Verizon to isolate
and pick up off a group of union members.
Tell Verizon it's not going to
work!
- Even winning representation and their first
union contract was a long struggle for VIS workers. Despite
signing a neutrality agreement, Verizon ran a campaign
of fear and intimidation against the workers. The
members are now fighting for a second contract and the Company
has bargained in bad faith, doing all they can to bust the
union.
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Breaking News: Verizon has
just announced that management employees will no longer accrue
guaranteed pension benefits or receive retiree health insurance.
(Click here for
details.)
This is another attack on union
members at VIS (except in New England), who are part of the
management pension plan. (Current retirees and other union VZ
employees are not
affected.) |
This attack on unionism and collective bargaining at Yellow
Pages is a shot across the bow of all Verizon workers. We must
stand together and mobilize to pressure Verizon to end its
unfair labor practices and bad faith bargaining, and negotiate a
fair contract.
The strikers need YOUR help!
Click here to send the letter below
or your own message to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg and VIS
President Kathy Harless
Dear Mr. Seidenberg and Ms. Harless,
The 300 striking CWA members at VIS do not stand alone. As
long as you refuse to bargain in good faith with these workers,
70,000 CWA and IBEW members at Verizon will stand with them.
We will alert VIS customers in New York that the company may
attempt to send scabs to their offices or have scabs send
renewal contracts.
We will join their picket lines and mobilize for as long as
it takes. In short, we will provide whatever support they need
until Verizon returns to the bargaining table and settles this
dispute.
In addition, we are outraged at Verizon's despicable decision
to cut off the defined benefit pension plan and retiree health
care for management employees -- which also affects these VIS
workers.
Take
Action!
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