{"id":806,"date":"2011-08-12T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T11:52:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:35:17","slug":"union-boss-militancy-and-violence-on-display-during-verizon-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/union-boss-militancy-and-violence-on-display-during-verizon-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Boss Militancy and Violence on Display During Verizon Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nDays into the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union boss-ordered strike against Verizon, disturbing reports of union militancy &#8212; and their effects on workers and customers alike &#8212; are becoming widespread. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/fbi-looking-into-allegation-by-verizon-of-sabotage-as-workers-strike-continues\/2011\/08\/11\/gIQAQtHa9I_story.html\">Associated Press<\/a> have reported over 70 instances of sabotage in just the first few days of the strike.<\/p>\n<p>In the video below (warning: explicit language), a striking union militant uses his young daughter as a prop, demanding she block a Verizon truck from moving while he curses out the Verizon employees in the truck.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"videoContainer\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/104458\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"533\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of some of the other disturbing reports:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One non-striking Verizon worker in New York <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/AP4ab55d166e7a4c7c9a9a510ca41863bd.html\">was shot<\/a> with a BB gun by union militants.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>Boston Herald<\/i> interviews a 64-year old mother of five about union strikers who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/business\/general\/view.bg?articleid=1357911\">picketed outside of her house<\/a> while Verizon technicians repaired her broken phone line<\/li>\n<li>Senior citizens at an independent living facility in Maryland <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2011-08-11\/business\/bs-bz-verizon-strike-20110811_1_verizon-strike-candice-johnson-replacement-workers\">whose phone lines were knocked out in a recent storm<\/a> have been forced to share phones, if they&#8217;ve been able to reach families members at all, reports the <i>Baltimore Sun<\/i> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The National Right to Work Foundation issued special legal notices informing CWA and IBEW union members of their rights to resign from union membership and return to work (see the notices <a href=\"\/en\/special-notice-verizon-employees-cwa\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"\/en\/special-notice-verizon-employees-ibew-strike\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 Foundation attorneys have provided free legal aid to <a href=\"\/b\/nr_25.php\">victims of union violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nDays into the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union boss-ordered strike against Verizon, disturbing reports of union militancy &#8212; and their effects on workers and customers alike &#8212; are becoming widespread. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/fbi-looking-into-allegation-by-verizon-of-sabotage-as-workers-strike-continues\/2011\/08\/11\/gIQAQtHa9I_story.html\">Associated Press<\/a> have reported over 70 instances of sabotage in just the first few days of the strike.<\/p>\n<p>In the video below (warning: explicit language), a striking union militant uses his young daughter as a prop, demanding she block a Verizon truck from moving while he curses out the Verizon employees in the truck.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/104458\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"533\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of some of the other disturbing reports:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Union Boss Militancy and Violence on Display During Verizon Strike - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/blog\/union-boss-militancy-and-violence-on-display-during-verizon-strike\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Union Boss Militancy and Violence on Display During Verizon Strike - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Days into the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union boss-ordered strike against Verizon, disturbing reports of union militancy -- and their effects on workers and customers alike -- are becoming widespread. 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