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Verizon Members Get Ready for Annual Shareholder Meeting
Gearing up for Verizon's annual meeting, set for May 5 in Houston, CWA members have a clear message for management: Changes must be made if the company wants workers' help bringing back business from competitors.
Verizon locals are collecting proxies from members to deliver at the meeting; CWA's voting recommendations on the shareholder proposals are available at ga.cwa-union.org/verizon.
CWAers attending the meeting will remind management that it's time to bring back 3,000 DSL tech support jobs and other work that has been contracted out, restore true bundled service that customers want, and put real neutrality in place at Verizon Wireless, instead of management's campaign of intimidation and firing of workers trying to organize, said CWA District 2 Vice President Pete Catucci.
Proxies now have been sent by Verizon to all shareholders. Members who hold Verizon stock are urged to mail proxies to their local union office by April 29. Members should vote on the proposals, sign and date the card where indicated and mail both the card and return envelope to their local.
In other Verizon actions, members of CWA Local 1023 paid another visit to Verizon Wireless CEO Dennis Strigl, this time at corporate headquarters in Bedminister, N.J., to protest the company's union-busting actions. They distributed leaflets until the local police turned up. Local 1023 also organized a field trip for Organizing Institute attendees, bringing them to a Verizon Wireless store in Union, N.J., where they quickly had management on the phone to corporate headquarters.
Activists from CWA Locals 1122, 1115, and 1117 and IBEW Local 2213 also visited CEO Strigl's alma mater, Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y., to let current students and administrators know about his anti-union agenda.
Canisius College is affiliated with the Catholic Church, and activists picketed and distributed flyers pointing out that the Catholic Church strongly endorses workers' rights, recognizing that, "among the basic rights of the human person must be counted the right of freely founding labor unions."
Verizon locals are collecting proxies from members to deliver at the meeting; CWA's voting recommendations on the shareholder proposals are available at ga.cwa-union.org/verizon.
CWAers attending the meeting will remind management that it's time to bring back 3,000 DSL tech support jobs and other work that has been contracted out, restore true bundled service that customers want, and put real neutrality in place at Verizon Wireless, instead of management's campaign of intimidation and firing of workers trying to organize, said CWA District 2 Vice President Pete Catucci.
Proxies now have been sent by Verizon to all shareholders. Members who hold Verizon stock are urged to mail proxies to their local union office by April 29. Members should vote on the proposals, sign and date the card where indicated and mail both the card and return envelope to their local.
In other Verizon actions, members of CWA Local 1023 paid another visit to Verizon Wireless CEO Dennis Strigl, this time at corporate headquarters in Bedminister, N.J., to protest the company's union-busting actions. They distributed leaflets until the local police turned up. Local 1023 also organized a field trip for Organizing Institute attendees, bringing them to a Verizon Wireless store in Union, N.J., where they quickly had management on the phone to corporate headquarters.
Activists from CWA Locals 1122, 1115, and 1117 and IBEW Local 2213 also visited CEO Strigl's alma mater, Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y., to let current students and administrators know about his anti-union agenda.
Canisius College is affiliated with the Catholic Church, and activists picketed and distributed flyers pointing out that the Catholic Church strongly endorses workers' rights, recognizing that, "among the basic rights of the human person must be counted the right of freely founding labor unions."