Regional Bargaining Report # 54 Saturday May 7, 2016  Following our meeting with Verizon on Monday, the CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees met with the Company in off record discussions over call sharing, The union committee continued to meet throughout the week to discuss our next steps.

Regional Bargaining Report #53 Your Bargaining Team met with the company in Rye this afternoon for approximately 2 1/2 hours.   We made some compromise proposals in a number of areas, designed to kick-start the bargaining process.

Regional Bargaining Report # 52 Thursday April 28, 2016   Today, Verizon presented what it described as its “last, best, and final offer” to your bargaining teams in Philadelphia and Westchester. Unfortunately, their “last and best” was little more than the “same old bullshit.

Information for all Verizon Striking Members. 1) Rally Monday April 25th in Trenton NJ, the local will have up to 3 buses for members who would like to go. Please have members call the union hall to reserve a seat. Seats will be on a first come first serve basis. 2 buses will leave from the south at the Teamsters Union Hall in Elmsford and 1 bus from the North location TBD.

Regional Bargaining Report # 51 Tuesday April 19, 2016 The CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees met today at the Rye town Hilton. We informed the Company bargaining committee members that Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam had been out to a few picket lines talking to striking members.

STRIKE RALLY & MARCH MONDAY APRIL 18, 10:30AM 230 WEST 36TH ST, NYC (VERIZON CENTRAL OFFICE).

Verizon Strike Update With Verizon executives refusing to give up demands on offshoring jobs and other devastating cuts, nearly 40,000 Verizon workers are preparing to go on strike on Wednesday at 6:00 am. The Communications Workers of America made this statement: The 39,000 hard-working families at Verizon have made the company successful.

Verizon Workers Announce Strike Deadline of Wednesday, April 13th Telecom giant makes $1.8 billion a month in profit, but seeks to destroy good jobs for nearly 40,000 East Coast working families Monday, April 11, 2016 After trying for ten months to reach a fair contract, nearly 40,000 Verizon workers from Massachusetts to Virginia will go on strike at 6 a.m.

VZ Bargaining Report 50 The CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees met yesterday at the Rye town Hilton. Last week during off the record discussions the Union laid out to the Company a path to a contract by addressing the Company’s critical needs.

Regional Bargaining Report #49 The CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees spent many hours at the Rye Town Hilton this week working on ideas that we believe address the Company's most important concerns in reaching a new contract.