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Statement by CWA on Verizon's Proposed Purchase of MCI
President Morton Bahr of the Communications Workers of America issued the following statement on Verizon's proposal to buy MCI. CWA represents about 66,000 workers at Verizon.
Verizon's proposed purchase of MCI will give the company the ability to provide a greater diversity of services for customers and allow Verizon to compete more effectively with the emerging U.S. cable giants and the big global players in today's volatile communications industry.
MCI's Internet backbone network, the largest in the world, will bolster the communications services Verizon already offers to residential and business customers. The merger should greatly advance Verizon's rollout of high-speed broadband access, one of our nation's most urgent needs.
The Communications Workers of America believes that the merger must also provide new opportunity for workers and a renewed commitment to customers. That means the creation of quality jobs to ensure that workers and American communities also will benefit from this merger, as well as continued support for universal service, as technology changes the tools we use to communicate.
When the SBC-AT&T combination was announced last month, CWA made clear our concern for the employment security and career opportunity of the 115,000 workers we represent at those companies.
Verizon and MCI now have the same opportunity to follow a business model built on dynamic growth, the creation of new services and technologies and the quality jobs that will meet customers' needs.
We'll be emphasizing these critical needs in our discussions with Verizon executives in the coming days and weeks.
Verizon's proposed purchase of MCI will give the company the ability to provide a greater diversity of services for customers and allow Verizon to compete more effectively with the emerging U.S. cable giants and the big global players in today's volatile communications industry.
MCI's Internet backbone network, the largest in the world, will bolster the communications services Verizon already offers to residential and business customers. The merger should greatly advance Verizon's rollout of high-speed broadband access, one of our nation's most urgent needs.
The Communications Workers of America believes that the merger must also provide new opportunity for workers and a renewed commitment to customers. That means the creation of quality jobs to ensure that workers and American communities also will benefit from this merger, as well as continued support for universal service, as technology changes the tools we use to communicate.
When the SBC-AT&T combination was announced last month, CWA made clear our concern for the employment security and career opportunity of the 115,000 workers we represent at those companies.
Verizon and MCI now have the same opportunity to follow a business model built on dynamic growth, the creation of new services and technologies and the quality jobs that will meet customers' needs.
We'll be emphasizing these critical needs in our discussions with Verizon executives in the coming days and weeks.