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Mobilization is Our Power
As the CWA and IBEW bargaining teams held their first negotiations on June 22nd, practice picket lines went up across Verizon East. Thousands of members walked before work and at lunchtime to let management know that we are ready and we are one!
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There were so many people on Local 1104’s practice picket line that they spilled out into the street. Morning traffic on Route 146 slowed to a crawl. At the Bethpage garage on Long island, over 100 Local 1104 members formed such a large line that they created a traffic jam on nearby route 107. The Local says their members everywhere are pumped up!
Hundreds of members from Local 1400 and IBEW Locals 2222, 2322, 2323, and 2324 rallied in Providence, RI, to show their solidarity.
Local 13100 is keeping things colorful, adding red food days and Black Fridays to their usual Red Thursdays.
In Brooklyn, retirees have been giving out coffee at garages every Thursday.
Members of Local 2204 at the CSSC are putting mobilization signs in their car windows every day. The local is passing out sunshades printed with “We Are United.”
Local 13101 members are also sending a message in the parking lot by putting “No Contracting” signs in the windshields of their trucks.
Red balloons floated overhead at the dispatch center represented by Local 1123.
Local 2108 handbilled Metro stations to ask, “You Paid Your Federal Income Taxes. Why Didn’t Verizon?”
Local 1111 took flyers to a Binghampton Mets game. Local 2201 visited the minor league team in their area, handing out 500 flyers to fans at a Flying Squirrels game.
As part of the anti-contracting mobilization, Local 1115 handbilled company buildings where the mechanics and computer techs are contractors.
Verizon’s next CEO, Lowell McAdam, got an up-close look at the practice picket line at the Nanuet garage in Rockland County, NY. McAdam and Chief Operating Officer Bob Mudge came out to the picket line and spoke to Local 1107 members. So we know they heard us and saw us this time. Let’s make sure they hear us loud and clear all the time!