Verizon Bargaining 2011: Report # 51

The Mid-Atlantic Bargaining Team and the Company met on November 1 and November 2 in subcommittees on call sharing, healthcare and sales compensation. Our committees are continuing to push our agenda in each of these subcommittees. We continue to identify inaccurate information the Company has provided in response to our previous data requests. We have informed the company they need to come to these subcommittee meetings with realistic proposals, not the same BS that has gotten us nowhere. We have identified many issues they must address and will continue to meet to work through these issues. Additional subcommittee meetings are scheduled for Thursday and an update will follow.

This Company continues to feel the pain from our mobilization activities as it continues to attempt to destroy the middle class. They are desperate to convince you, the membership and the public that they are for the middle class. They just fail to point out that they are for the middle class in India and Mexico where they have outsourced many jobs.

We were advised today that Vz. management has placed large signs stating, "Vz is for the middle class" throughout several office locations, in elevators etc. We should make sure our members are not involved in hanging these signs. Any member directed to hang the signs, should refuse and request other work. As a concerted activity all members should refuse this type of coerced work assignment. We will not tolerate Vz.'s attempt to use our members to work against one another.

Our members are too smart to fall for this company’s desperate attempt to protect its image and we must keep the pressure on them every day.

Stay Focused! Stay United! Stay Mobilized!