From Strike to Shop Floor
From resisting new management attacks to organizing wireless employees, Verizon workers still have a lot to mobilize for.
On June 1, Verizon wireline workers returned to work after a forty-nine-day strike.
Well, some of them did. Others showed up wearing their union’s signature red shirts instead of Verizon shirts and, within an hour or two, walked right back out.
“I got a message from a friend in Holbrook in Suffolk County. He told me the whole garage had walked out,” says a shop steward from New York. “The manager had said, no shirts no pay. He tried to send the chief home, and so the whole garage walked out. I immediately texted around to see if similar situations had happened. Then I heard garages at Newburgh, Suffolk, and other places had walked.” Workers at these garages had also shown up donning their Communication Workers of America shirts.
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