Bargaining Update: Verizon Southwest

CWA Local 6171 members count down to Aug. 11 contract expiration.

Mobilization has been building among members of CWA Local 6171 this week, as workers count down until the Aug. 11 expiration of their contract at Verizon Southwest.

The 1,800 workers at Verizon Southwest are facing the same company attacks on healthcare, retirement and job security and wages as workers at Verizon East have been battling for more than a year.

A town hall call on July 31 updated bargaining and mobilization activities; members can listen to that call here.

Black Monday, when Verizon workers took black balloons to call centers and wore black armbands and ribbons to show their determination to stand up to Verizon's attempt to kill middle-class jobs, was just the start of a week-long mobilization campaign. Verizon Southwest members are standing strong in their fair contract fight.