Two ways to stand with 45,000 striking Verizon workers this week:
» E-mail Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam and tell him you stand with workers against corporate greed!
» Take action at a Verizon Wireless store:
- Find the nearest Verizon Wireless store using Google Maps, or Verizon Wireless’ own store locator.
- Print this flyer for customers and this fact sheet.
- Grab a few friends and head to the store. Hand flyers to customers as they enter the store. Go inside and make some noise. Ask to speak to a manager, share the fact sheet with them and demand they pass it along to their corporate office. Get creative!
- E-mail email hidden; JavaScript is required a report from your action along with photos and videos to share with other activists.
Students join 45,000 Verizon workers on the picket lines…Can you hear us now?
TAKE ACTION NOW: E-mail Verizon’s CEO and then take action at a Verizon Wireless store!
This week, USAS activists across the country are planning actions at Verizon Wireless stores in solidarity with 45,000 striking Verizon workers. Even though Verizon paid top exec’s $258 million over the past four years, the company wants to slash $20,000 a year per family. Students refuse to let Verizon’s corporate greed destroy what workers’ families won through 50 years of collective bargaining fights.
We’re proud to host this weekend’s National Summer Retreat at the offices of one of the striking workers’ unions, the Communications Workers of America. (Solidarity with IBEW members, too!) If you were pumped up by this year’s National Conference flashmob and march at Ohio State, stay tuned for videos from the creative actions students have in store for Verizon!
You can take action too: E-mail Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam now, and then demand justice at the nearest Verizon Wireless store.
Workers patiently waited for Verizon to negotiate since mid June but even as workers neared the expiration of their contract, Verizon is demanding nearly a $1 billion in concessions from their workers, making it $20,000 from each worker. Now, the company won’t even come to the table with workers, cancelling three meetings since Saturday alone.
It’s been four days since Verizon workers went on strike, and students are in the fight for as long as it takes!
In solidarity,
Vicko Alvarez
Domestic Campaigns Coordinator
