VT WORKERS EVENTS

About 300 people attended a conference on "Building a Movement for Worker Justice" organized by the Vermont Workers' Center/JWJ on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at the Univ. of Vermont in Burlington.

At the conference, a workshop on "Lessons from the Verizon Stop the Sale Campaign & Next Steps in Universal Broadband Access in New England" was attended by about 35 people.

Pictures from the conference and the workshop are posted here

Handouts from the workshop included:
  • Update for state legislators and the public on Verizon Transfer of Assets to FairPoint Communications

  • The proposed FairPoint purchase of Verizon's properties would place consumers, workers and communities at risk (report)

  • Stip with NH PUC staff fails to ensure high speed internet, lets Verizon “off the hook"(press release)

  • Copy of full page stop the sale ad from NH

  • Speed Matters: High Speed Internet for All (brochure)

  • Dover, NH AT&T organizing victory (press release)

  • Broken Promises: Verizon neglects its commitment to provide good jobs and quality service (report)

  • Support Verizon Business Technician Terry Skiest (flyer)

  • Most recent edition of Unity @ Verizon (newsletter)


If you would like any or all of the handouts, email a request to: rand@mindspring.com

Rand Wilson, Communications Coordinator
Center for Strategic Research, AFL-CIO Organizing Dept.
c/o IBEW Local 2222, 1137 Washington Street, Dorchester, MA 02124
w) (617) 929-6000, f) (617) 929-6099, c) (617) 803-0799
rwilson@aflcio.org or rand@mindspring.com