CWA Launches Latest Radio Ads in Eight Regions Slamming Verizon?s Failure to Develop FiOS Broadband
CWA announced today a series of eight radio ads slamming Verizon?s failure to build out universal FiOS broadband across the East Coast as it outsources jobs and cuts workers? pay. The 30-second ads are scheduled to begin running Friday across New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and Washington D.C.
The ads come after Verizon allowed its labor contract to expire on Aug. 1 at midnight, leaving 39,000 CWA and IBEW represented telecom workers from Massachusetts to Virginia without a labor agreement. The company has demanded harsh job security, health care and retirement security concessions from its workers, despite making profits of $28 billion over the last five years and paying its top five executives $249 million during that time.