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It isn't just our kooky Legislature that's launched a smackdown of the middle class.
Over 50 community members and members of the Communications Workers of America leafletted customers at Verizon Wireless stores in Manchester and Portsmouth yesterday in solidarity with their brothers and sisters in New York who are fighting for a fair contract with Verizon Wireless. Making the argument that no employer should throw good middle class jobs away in the middle of a recession, they urged customers to switch service to the more worker-friendly AT&T.
Verizon Wireless is currently embroiled in a contract dispute with workers in New York City. Felicia Augevich, a district vice-president of CWA Local 1400, said that while Verizon no longer employs workers in New Hampshire, the company's hardball tactics could encourage other employers to reset their standards - even in New Hampshire, which is known for its able and educated workforce:
"Good middle-class jobs fuel the New Hampshire advantage. We cannot afford for multinational companies such as Verizon Wireless to reset the standards for workers even in trying economic times."
Verizon has a history of difficult dealings with its workers. From the Associated Press (reprinted in the Portsmouth Herald):
After talks broke down last summer, about 45,000 Verizon workers who are members of the CWA and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers walked off the job and took part in a 13-day strike. They returned to work under terms of the old contract.
