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Victory for Verizon and Verizon Wireless Workers!
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Victory for Verizon and Verizon Wireless Workers!

Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers who have been on strike since April 13 are celebrating big gains after coming to an agreement in principle with the company. After 45 days of the largest strike in recent history, striking CWA members have achieved our major goals of improving working families’ standard of living, creating good union jobs in our communities and achieving a first contract for wireless retail store workers.

Victory for Verizon and Verizon Wireless Workers!

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CWAers Confronted by Armed Verizon Security and Swat Team in the Philippines

Over the course of a four-day visit to the Philippines this week, four representatives of Communications Workers of America who are on strike discovered that the extent to which Verizon is offshoring work is far beyond what has previously been reported and what the company publicly has claimed. Verizon is offshoring customer service calls to numerous call centers in the Philippines, where workers are paid just $1.78 an hour and forced to work overtime without compensation.

CWAers Confronted by Armed Verizon Security and Swat Team in the Philippines

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CWAers Tell Legislators in Albany: Safe Staffing Can't Wait!

CWA members from Locals 1168 and 1133 were joined by our sisters and brothers from NYSNA, NYSUT, PEF, 1199SEIU, and the NY State Wide Senior Action Council to tell Albany legislators: Patient safety can't wait and urge them to pass the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act this session.

CWAers Tell Legislators in Albany: Safe Staffing Can't Wait!