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From: Jennifer Masferrer and Isaac Collazo of Communications Workers of America
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Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 10:04 AM
To: Miriam Vieni
Subject: Verizon management: Can you hear us now?! [Bernie]
<http://act.moveon.org/go/3752?t=1&akid=165299.5346423.lqNgdz> Bernie Stands
with Verizon Workers
Last month, Bernie Sanders went to New York to stand, hand in hand, with
striking Verizon workers. He thanked them for their "courage in standing up for
justice against corporate greed" and applauded their efforts to fight for fair
jobs from a company that makes billions of dollars of profit a year and to
protest plans to offshore more jobs, to make workers move outside of their
communities, and weaken benefits for experienced workers and retirees.1 Sanders
was immediately vilified by Verizon's CEO and by right-wing media, but he
hasn't backed down.
Now, the nearly 40,000 striking workers are entering their third pay period
without a paycheck and Verizon is still holding out on meeting the workers'
demands.2 But the company is under increasing pressure, and if Verizon sees
that enough of its customers and customers of its competitors stand with
workers to demand fair jobs, they'll have no choice but to relent. Can you
stand with Bernie Sanders in support of Verizon workers
<http://act.moveon.org/go/3760?t=2&akid=165299.5346423.lqNgdz> and sign Verizon
employees Jennifer Masferrer and Isaac Collazo's petition to tell Verizon to do
the right thing?
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Dear MoveOn member,
We're Jennifer Masferrer and Isaac Collazo. We're striking Verizon employees
and members of the Communications Workers of America, and we started a petition
to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, which says:
Enough is enough. Settle a fair contract with Verizon and Verizon Wireless
workers now.
<http://act.moveon.org/go/3760?t=3&akid=165299.5346423.lqNgdz> Sign Jennifer
and Isaac's petition
We are on strike because we will do whatever it takes to create a better
workplace for ourselves and those that follow.
We're standing together to make sure the needs of working families are met,
instead of standing by as a handful of individuals get richer and richer.
We're standing together because Verizon has fired, threatened, and intimidated
working people at Verizon Wireless who are trying to create a better future for
themselves and their families.
We're standing together because we want to earn a living in our own communities
instead of moving away from our homes and our families. We want good jobs to
stay in the United States, not be sent overseas.
We're standing together to make sure that working people at Verizon like us can
not only make a good living, but also have a good life.
Let Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam know that you stand with us.
Click <http://act.moveon.org/go/3760?t=4&akid=165299.5346423.lqNgdz> here to
add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.
Thanks!
—Jennifer Masferrer and Isaac Collazo
Sources:
1. "Bernie Sanders Rallies With Striking Verizon Workers," NBC News, April 18,
2016
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2. "36,000 Verizon workers go on strike," CNN Money, April 13, 2016
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&akid=165299.5346423.lqNgdz
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