Amy Goodman
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CWA Spokesperson Robert Master & Verizon Employee Pamela Galpern Discuss the Verizon Strike
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13:48Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - Some 45,000 workers at Verizon have entered their fifth day on strike after negotiations between Verizon and two unions representing the workers broke down when the company attempted to cut health and pension benefits for workers and make it easier to fire workers. The workers on strike are employed in Verizon's fixed-line division covering landline phones, DSL Internet, FiOS, cable TV and Internet. Workers at Verizon Wireless are not unionized. Verizon says the benefit cuts are needed because its wireline business has been in decline for more than a decade as more people switch to using cellphones exclusively. But union officials have rejected Verizon's argument. As the nation's second-largest U.S. phone carrier, Verizon earned $6.9 billion in net income for the first six months of the year. Democracy Now! interviews Robert Master, spokesperson for Communications Workers of America, one of the unions representing Verizon employees, and Pamela Galpern, a striking Verizon worker and union activist. "Verizon [has] launched a full-scale attack," says Galpern. "Essentially, the company has said despite the fact we're hugely profitable, we're going to take advantage of the economic situation in the country right now to try to roll back the wages, benefits, and job security of our workers."
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