CommunicationWorkersOfAmerica &mdash; Fight Back! News https://fightbacknews.org/tag:CommunicationWorkersOfAmerica News and Views from the People's Struggle Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:54:16 +0000 https://i.snap.as/RZCOEKyz.png CommunicationWorkersOfAmerica &mdash; Fight Back! News https://fightbacknews.org/tag:CommunicationWorkersOfAmerica Verizon strikers picket in Washington DC https://fightbacknews.org/verizon-strikers-picket-washington-dc?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Verizon strikers walk the picket line in Washington DC") Washington DC - Verizon workers with Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 2336 were joined by IBEW union members to rally in downtown Washington, DC today, April 21. Around 100 workers picketed outside a Verizon store near the Metro Center train stop. !--more-- Chants of, "Up, up with the union, yeah, yeah! Down, down with the bosses, boom, boom!" as well as "What do we want? Contract! When do we want it? Now!" where heard through the busy business district. "If you're a young person and you came into this company now, you would not have a pension and that's not right!" said Ortessa Allen, a 45-year member of CWA Local 2336 and Verizon technician worker. "If they do this to us then what are they gonna do to others?" #WashingtonDC #strike #CommunicationWorkersOfAmerica #Verizon #Strikes div id="sharingbuttons.io"/div]]> Verizon strikers walk the picket line in Washington DC

Washington DC – Verizon workers with Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 2336 were joined by IBEW union members to rally in downtown Washington, DC today, April 21. Around 100 workers picketed outside a Verizon store near the Metro Center train stop.

Chants of, “Up, up with the union, yeah, yeah! Down, down with the bosses, boom, boom!” as well as “What do we want? Contract! When do we want it? Now!” where heard through the busy business district.

“If you're a young person and you came into this company now, you would not have a pension and that's not right!” said Ortessa Allen, a 45-year member of CWA Local 2336 and Verizon technician worker. “If they do this to us then what are they gonna do to others?”

#WashingtonDC #strike #CommunicationWorkersOfAmerica #Verizon #Strikes

]]> https://fightbacknews.org/verizon-strikers-picket-washington-dc Thu, 21 Apr 2016 23:32:11 +0000 CWA Strike Hits US West https://fightbacknews.org/uswest?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Striking members of the Communication Workers of America walk the picket line outside US West headquarters in Minneapolis. The strike resulted from forced overtime and contracting out to non-union companies. A tentative settlement brought the employees back to work, but unresolved issues may mean the rank and file reject the contract and renew their strike. #MinneapolisMN #News #CommunicationWorkersOfAmerica div id="sharingbuttons.io"/div]]> Striking members of the Communication Workers of America walk the picket line outside US West headquarters in Minneapolis. The strike resulted from forced overtime and contracting out to non-union companies. A tentative settlement brought the employees back to work, but unresolved issues may mean the rank and file reject the contract and renew their strike.

#MinneapolisMN #News #CommunicationWorkersOfAmerica

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