Verizon Wants the “Freedom” to Edit Your Internet. Simon Maloy, Media Matters: “Last week, Verizon filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit laying out their various and sundry complaints against the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order, which put net neutrality regulations in place for Internet service providers. The telecom giant is suing to have the FCC’s order thrown out, and one of their legal arguments is raising more than a few eyebrows. Verizon, per the court document, considers itself your Internet editor”: here.
This video from the USA is called Verizon Strike Rap at rally New York City.
An examination of the injunctions leveled against the Verizon strikers show that they undermine core democratic rights of the workers. They go far beyond addressing the unsubstantiated charges of “sabotage” that the company, abetted by the media, has leveled in order to justify its strike-breaking operations: here.
A rally of up to two thousand Verizon workers and supporters protested the approval of a contract between the New York City Department of Education and Verizon for phone and Internet service at city schools: here.
On August 7, 45,000 Verizon workers went on strike against $1 billion a year in wage and benefit concessions demanded by the company. In this video, filmed as the strike entered its second week, Verizon workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania explain why they are fighting.
This video from the USA is called CWA Spokesperson Robert Master & Verizon Employee Pamela Galpern Discuss the Verizon Strike.
As the strike by 45,000 Verizon workers in the US enters its second week, the government is aggressively intervening on the side of the company to strangle the resistance of the workers to sweeping concessions demands: here.
Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes: “The strike covers 45,000 members of the Communications Workers and Electrical Workers (IBEW) from Massachusetts to Virginia. Verizon wants to eliminate pensions, as well as limit raises and force big health care costs onto current workers and retirees. The concessions would take $1 billion from workers, at a company which made almost $20 billion during the last four years”: here.
Verizon strikers honor Gerry Horgan, killed at a picket in 1989: here.
Verizon workers denounce company charges of “sabotage”: here.
Verizon Punishes Striking Workers By Canceling Benefits: here.
As stock markets plummet worldwide, the media increasingly repeat the call for strong government: here.
US stocks soared in the final hour of trading Tuesday after the Federal Reserve Board pledged to keep its benchmark interest rate at its current level of zero to 0.25 percent at least until mid-2013: here.
Ellen Brown, Truthout: “On Thursday, August 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 512 points, the biggest stock market drop since the collapse of September 2008. Why? Weren’t the markets supposed to rebound after the debt ceiling agreement was reached on Monday, avoiding US default and a downgrade of US debt? So we were told, but the market apparently understands what politicians don’t: the debt deal is a death deal for the economy. Reducing government spending by $2.2 trillion over a decade, as Congress just agreed to do, will kill any hopes of economic recovery. We’re looking at a double-dip recession. The figure is actually more than $2.2 trillion”: here.
This video from the USA is called Detroit area workers, retireees speak out on social spending cuts.
US black workers ‘disproportionately hurt by cuts’: here.
Some 30,000 Michigan college students have been removed from the state’s food stamp program: here.
While Many Americans Struggle to Pay for Food, the Rich Are Back Buying $2495 Pairs of Boots: here.
US Spends Six Times More on Defense Than China, Iran and North Korea Combined: here.
USA: The walkout by 45,000 telecommunication workers against Verizon is entering its fourth day after “informal” talks between the company and unions produced no results Monday: here.
The Verizon strike is one of the labor movement’s biggest battles in many years: here. \
Verizon’s Workers Strike Back at Corporate Greed – You Can Join Them: here.
Telecoms firm Verizon launched legal action in New York on Wednesday in a bid to prevent strikers from picketing facilities: here.
Greece’s main civil servants’ union announced today that it will file lawsuits against the nominally Socialist government over its €50 billion (£44bn) privatisation programme: here.
