VERIZON STRIKE UPDATE

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

(from CWA District 2’s website) District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton and Assistant to the Vice President Dennis Trainor as well as District 2-13 Vice President Ed Mooney and Assistant to the Vice President Gail Evans along with Myles Calvey, Business Manager, IBEW Local 2222/ Chair T-6 Council and Bill Huber, President/Business Manager IBEW Local 827 met with the company Monday at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye New York. We spent the entire day discussing all the issues that are on the New York/New England table and the Mid Atlantic table. The union is trying to limit the issues at both of these tables by convincing the company to withdraw many of their retrogressive demands. We recessed at 11:30 PM and are scheduled to reconvene Tuesday morning. Picketlines are strong at every location from New England to Virginia. Unions are contacting us from all over the country who are offering to help us in our fight against Verizon. Working men and women, union and non-union, realize this is a fight to save the middle class.