(Laura Clawson)
"We don't want anything more. We just don't want to lose what we've got."
"This is not about money. It's about our health care and pensions. And about middle-class jobs."
"We'll be out here one day longer than we need to be."
Verizon's union workers are crystal clear why they're out on strike. They're clear not just about the specific benefits management is trying to take from them, but about the big picture, about the company's profits and the hundreds of millions in pay that go to top executives, and about their place in the broader corporate campaign against the American middle class. They know what solidarity means—and they deserve solidarity from us.
Sign the petition calling on Verizon to bargain in good faith. ("Good faith" means more than just repeating the same concession demands again and again, by the way.)