NEW YORK
Phone workers protest layoff threat
Thousands of workers represented by District 1 of the
Communications Workers union demonstrated outside the Verizon
building on 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan May 29. The crowd
was estimated at 5,000 to 8,000 workers.
They demanded no layoffs and that Verizon, the regional
telephone monopoly, respect the contract signed last year.
Verizon bosses claim that 2,000 CWA workers are "surplus."
The union's response is that these workers are only surplus if
Verizon wants to stop giving its customers service.
Slogans on many of the placards and T-shirts pointed out
that if Verizon wants to cut costs, it could save $40 million
by simply firing its two top executives.
--G. Dunkel
Reprinted from the June 13, 2002, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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