Executive Council Statement
In Support of CWA and IBEW Verizon Workers in Current Contract Negotiations
… unit are striking over family and health issues—preserving their emergency family illness benefit, resisting the demand to take back days of sick leave and seeking relief from oppressive levels of forced overtime. The unions’ bargaining goals include a fair wage settlement that recognizes their members’ productivity and contribution to Verizon’s success, strengthened employment security and access by members to new and unorganized job areas, pension … also received $80 million in bonuses for consummating the merger. Now Verizon seeks to abrogate the limits on movement of work. In the face of rising health care costs, Verizon seeks to cap them and shift premium payments to the workers and …