Verizon Workers To Take Strike Vote July 25 (video)

by: Teresa Albano

Verizon workers represented by Communications Workers of America will vote on July 25 whether they would strike or not if the union and management cannot come to agreement on a new contract.

Union leaders say the corporation’s proposal is a huge step backwards for active workers and retirees. The proposal shifts thousands of dollars of expenses onto workers’ and retirees’ backs in health care, wages and other benefits hard-won over the last five decades, like double time on Sundays and night differentials… Read the full story here.

“We’re Not Going Backwards! We Are Going Forward”.  Watch the video of District 1 VP Chris Shelton at the Verizon Rally held at the CWA 73rd Convention.