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CWA has begun running advertisements to highlight the critical role the Verizon workers played in restoring vital services following the attack. Many of these workers have suffered serious health issues related to the work they did in the following days, weeks and months. Verizon - a corporation already making billions in profits each year - now wants to punish those and other workers by eliminating sick days and forcing workers to pay thousands of dollars a year in health care costs.

As bargaining with Verizon reconvened in Rye, N.Y., this week for 35,000 CWA members and 10,000 more at IBEW, negotiators went back to the table with a clear message: workers will not allow the company to destroy their collective bargaining rights or decades of hard-won progress made in past negotiations.

Twenty-five of America's richest CEOs took home more pay last year than their companies paid in federal income taxes, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies.

In response to consumer concerns throughout the District, on August 26, 2011, OPC filed a petition asking the DC Public Service Commission to convene a comprehensive review of Verizon DC's quality of service. "We have received numerous complaints from consumers in Wards 4, 6, and other areas, including complaints forwarded to OPC from Council members' offices relating consumer frustration with poor quality service and restoration response," said People's Counsel Sandra Mattavous-Frye.