Bargaining Continues, Verizon Demands Remain Unchanged

Members of Local 13500 demonstrate outside a Verizon office in Pittsburgh.

Below: Members of Local 2336 passed out red T-shirts and information about Verizon's unfair demands in Washington, D.C.

Verizon returned to the bargaining table this week, but CWA and IBEW bargaining teams still are waiting for the company to bargain fairly and end its attack on middle class workers.

The company is demanding $1 billion in concessions, which amounts to $20,000 per Verizon worker per year. Those demands have been on the table since bargaining began on June 22.

100 members of CWA Local 1103 picket a Verizon Wireless store in Mohegan Lake, N.Y.

Some 35,000 CWA members and 10,000 IBEW members are on strike. Also on strike are about 70 Verizon Wireless workers.

Workers are prepared to return to work when the company demonstrates that it's ready to bargain fairly.

Verizon is a very profitable company with annualized revenues of $108 billion. It has paid compensation of $258 million over the past four years to its top five executives. Verizon Wireless also will pay a $10 billion dividend to parent company Verizon and Vodafone. But when it comes to workers, Verizon wants to push workers and their families out of the middle class.

Keep up with the latest at www.cwa-union.org/verizon. Sign the petition, join a picket line and stand with the Verizon workers as they stand up for middle-class families.