Greedy CEO's mansion targeted with candlelight vigil

Striking Verizon workers protest at CEO's NJ home
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Aug 18, 10:25 PM (ET)

By JOSH LEDERMAN

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MENDHAM, N.J. (AP) - Hundreds of striking Verizon workers held a candlelight vigil outside their CEO's mansion Thursday, hoping to draw a stark contrast between the contract demands of blue-collar workers and the quality of life enjoyed by the company's executives.
Wearing red shirts, singing union songs and chanting "What's disgusting? Union busting," union members lit candles outside Lowell McAdam's home as the sun set on Mendham.
"It makes me sick that Americans have to come out and do this," said Joe Mastrogiovanni, a 29-year-old cable repairman from Piscataway. "We're not asking for more; we're asking to keep what we have."
About 45,000 Verizon landline workers from Massachusetts to Virginia have been striking since Aug. 7, fighting management demands for contract givebacks. About 7,000 of those workers are in New Jersey, and some of them were bused Thursday to the wealthy, suburban town where their top executive owns a home, intending to underscore that their benefits should not be cut while the company takes in billions in revenue.

The rest of Josh Lederman's article here

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I stand in solidarity with the 45,000 workers who are on strike.

Over the last four years, Verizon has made $19 billion in profits while paying its top five executives $250 million in compensation and bonuses .

With middle-class families already struggling, it's time for Verizon to share its success with the hardworking Americans who made it possible. This is not a time for corporate greed.  It is time to do the right thing.

Verizon made dramatic concessionary demands to kick off bargaining and never moved.  Now you are refusing to bargain with the CWA & the IBEW. 

That's why 45,000 of your employees aren't at work, but will return once you agree to bargain fairly.

Please drop your unfair demands and return to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract in good faith. 

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