Workers Target Verizon's Poor Service Thursday

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Verizon workers and DC residents will hit the streets of downtown DC early Thursday morning to demand the DC Public Service Commission (PSC) hold Verizon accountable for its poor service and refusal to invest in DC. The rally is taking place outside a closed PSC hearing on a recent settlement between Verizon and DC officials that the Connect-DC Coalition calls a “substandard agreement with false solutions to serious quality of service complaints.” “In the last 3 years Verizon has closed most of its service centers in the District and moved a third of its jobs out of the city,” says DC Jobs with Justice organizer Ruth Castel-Branco. “And now, instead of making a real investment in infrastructure and staffing, Verizon has decided to scape-goat its workers for its service problems.”