Verizon made billions in profits in just the last four years -- but right now, the telecom giant is demanding $1 billion from its own workers in pay and benefit cuts. Worse, rather than negotiate fairly with their employees, Verizon representatives cut off all negotiations and are refusing to talk. So more than 45,000 Verizon workers went on strike demanding that Verizon stop its attack on the middle class. If Verizon sees the public and its customers behind the striking workers, the company can be forced back into good faith negotiations.
Sign the Change.org petition by the Communications Workers of America asking Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam to restart negotiations and stop Verizon's attack on the middle class. If $1 billion in cuts is hard to grasp, consider this: Verizon is demanding each of its employees forfeit $20,000 in wages and benefits every year. Verizon's executives aren't forced into outrageous cuts with their workers. In the last four years, Verizon's top five executives were paid more than a quarter-billion dollars.
While Verizon makes record profits, its workers shouldn't be made to suffer. Let Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam know you stand with workers against the company's refusal to bargain. Click here to add your name to the workers' petition on Change.org:
http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-veriz... Thanks for being a change-maker,
- Jess and the Change.org team
Posted By: Jen Fad
Wednesday, August 17th 2011 at 3:30PM
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