Verizon Bargaining 2011: Report # 32

Talks continued today at the regional bargaining table with the union bargaining committee continuing to press our agenda that every job at Verizon should be a union job. We proposed to the company that we form a number of sub-committees on issues important to both the company and the union in order to break the log jam in these negotiations. The goal of the sub-committees would be to find ways to satisfy the needs of the company in such a way that, in turn, we can return the work being done by subcontractors. While we suggested four sub-committees, so far the company only responded positively to one of them.

We reminded the company that this is the 13th day of the strike and that our members and their employees are demanding that we continue to bargain by addressing our proposals and not just the company’s proposals to reach an agreement on our main focus of these negotiations, jobs.

Your union bargaining committee is ready to meet at any time, day or night, in order to work out our differences and bring these negotiations to a swift and fair conclusion.

We will not allow VERIZON

to destroy the Middle Class!

Stay Strong! – Stay United!