The Hill News

The 45,000 CWA and IBEW members are hopeful that Monday night’s return to work at Verizon after a two- week strike will bringmeaningful collective bargaining and a good result for all concerned.  For us, the strike was about real collective bargaining rights as much as about preserving the standard of living for our families.

The unity of our members and the widespread public support for workers really speak to the general state of working families in the US.  This includes stagnating  real wages in recent years, the collapse of employer based health care,  declining retirement security and the export of good jobs to low wage contractors and offshore.  The root cause of much of this decline is the collapse of bargaining rights in the US in both the public and private sectors.  

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