Verizon strike support urged as walkout enters second week

With the strike by nearly 40,000 Verizon workers entering its second week, the financial impact on the strikers and their families is beginning to take its toll. “Money is getting tight and the need is great,” reports Community Services Agency Executive Director Kathleen McKirchy. CSA is collecting monetary contributions to its Emergency Assistance Fund to support the strikers; click here to donate online now or email McKirchy at [email protected]. They’re also accepting and distributing donations of non-perishable food (nothing with a past sell by date). Meanwhile, over 100 area strikers and their supporters – including CWA, Working America, Jobs with Justice and many students and area activists – picketed the F Street Verizon Wireless yesterday at noon. The weekly rallies and pickets in DC and Silver Spring are expected to continue for the duration of the strike, CWA president Terry Richards says, along with the ongoing leafleting at Verizon Wireless stores throughout the area; click here for a map. photo: George Farenthold/OPEIU 277

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