Telcommunications
Obama’s health care “reform” and the Verizon strike
By Tom Eley, August 25, 2011
In demanding deep cuts to workers’ health insurance, Verizon cited Obama’s imposition of taxes on so-called “Cadillac” health care plans.
“They are trying to make the worker an indentured servant to corporate America”
Verizon strikers speak out
By a WSWS reporting team, August 12, 2011
The walkout by 45,000 telecommunication workers against Verizon has entered its sixth day with the propaganda blitz by the company and media branding strikers as saboteurs and overpaid relics.
The way forward for Verizon workers
By Socialist Equality Party (US), August 11, 2011
Five days into their strike, 45,000 Verizon workers face a determined drive by the corporation to impose massive concessions, slashing wages and benefits and moving to reduce workers to the status of casualized labor.
“The whole world needs to go on strike”
Verizon workers speak out as strike enters day five
By a WSWS reporting team, August 11, 2011
45,000 telecommunication worker enter the fifth day of their strike against Verizon, the nation’s second largest provider of telephone service and its largest wireless carrier.
“We are fighting for our rights”
Verizon workers denounce demands for massive concessions
By a WSWS reporting team, August 9, 2011
The World Socialist Web Site spoke to workers on picket lines throughout the Northeast United States, who denounced the demand by Verizon for sharp cuts in wages and benefits.
Mobilize the working class behind Verizon strikers!
By Socialist Equality Party, August 9, 2011
This statement will be distributed by supporters of the Socialist Equality Party to the 45,000 striking Verizon telecommunications workers in the Northeast United States.
43,000 strike telecommunications giant Verizon in Northeast US
By Samuel Davidson, August 8, 2011
Verizon is demanding massive concessions, including cuts to pensions, wages and health care and the ending of all job security provisions.
US telecom Verizon to cut 12,000 jobs this week
By Samuel Davidson, July 2, 2010
US telecommunications giant Verizon plans to slash thousands of jobs this Friday in one of the largest single job-cutting operations the company has carried out in years.
Verizon cuts 2,700 jobs the day after Thanksgiving
By Samuel Davidson, November 25, 2008
Verizon Telecommunications will cut 2,700 management employees the day after Thanksgiving in the third round of layoffs to hit the number-two US telecommunications provider this year. In addition, an undisclosed number of union-represented jobs were eliminated through an early retirement program.
Australian communications union faces membership decline
By Noel Holt, February 20, 1999
The Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union, one of Australia's largest unions, is desperately attempting to stem the 35 percent fall in its membership that has occurred over the past eight years. The decline has escalated in recent years as the union has deepened its collaboration with Telstra--the se
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