CWA Union, Verizon Appeal to Congress Amid 4th Day of Strike
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The Communications Workers of America, which represents 35,000 workers at Verizon Communications Inc. out on strike, appealed to Congress for support in the four-day-old labor dispute.
“We ask you to write Verizon President Lowell McAdam and urge him to respect collective bargaining rights and not to destroy middle-class jobs,” the union said in a letter sent yesterday to congressional offices in the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, where about 45,000 workers began striking Aug.