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The new Batman movie, ?The Dark Knight Rises,? is being filmed in Pittsburgh near the Verizon office on 7th Avenue, forcing the pickets to scatter when the filming is going on. But the film directors have told members of Local 13500 that the all-union crews strongly support the union fight against Verizon.

With the strike at Verizon now in its 13th day, 45,000 members of CWA and IBEW remain determined to stay out as long as it takes to get the company to bargain in good faith with their union bargaining teams.

Tens of thousands of working Americans, other unions, students, civil rights, religious, and community groups have joined union members' fight to get Verizon to bargain in good faith. More than 150,000 people so far have signed CWA's online petition, urging Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam to stop union-busting and negotiate fairly.

Thomas Guariano - I know plenty of Verizon workers who are faced with this loss of a paycheck and these are hard-working, decent family men with wives and children counting on them each.

Patti Sexton - Verizon is not Wisconsin. It is not broke. Verizon's blatant attempt at union busting must be stopped.