CWAers Keep Up Pressure on Verizon as Bargaining Resumes

Above and right: In one of hundreds of "adopt a store" actions nationwide, Local 4202 members at AT&T Mobility have been leafleting daily outside a Champaign, Ill., Verizon Wireless store.

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.

The "reset" of the company's bargaining position was made possible by the tremendous mobilization of CWA members and their supporters up and down the East Coast, and by activists at Verizon Wireless stores nationwide. CWAers will continue to pass out leaflets in front of Verizon Wireless to maintain pressure on the company for a fair contract.

Click here or visit www.unityatverizon.com for bargaining updates, news about ongoing mobilization activities and information about tonight's Verizon update phone call at 7 p.m. EDT.