Dundalk Labor Studies Director Discusses Verizon Strike
International Business Times, a global online business news site based in New York, interviewed Bill Barry, director of labor studies at CCBC Dundalk, about the issues involved in the strike by 45,000 employees against Verizon Communications Inc.
Bill Barry became a union member in 1968 as an apprentice carpenter in Worchester, MA. He's been a lifelong labor activist, and since 1997, the director of labor studies at CCBC Dundalk, building on a program started in the 1970s. In an interview with the International Business Times over the weekend, Barry discussed the Verizon employee strike, describing the conflict as "principally about the obligation/willingness of a large employer to negotiate with a union" and about a "very profitable company getting more money by taking it away ... from their workers." The entire Q & A can be found here. In 2009, Barry published Union Strategies for Hard Times: Helping Your Members and Building Your Union in the Great Recession. In 2008, Barry …
Roxane
1:31 pm on Monday, August 22, 2011
I guess the Patch won't interview anyone from Verizon. I paid a portion of my medical costs throughout my working life. I don't feel sorry for anyone who has to pitch in. Maybe the striking Verizon employees can all just wait and go on Obamacare... more ›