Just a friendly reminder - whether you are ordering lunch during the work day or catering for a family event, please show your appreciation to the following vendors and stores who supported our picket lines.  We will support those who support us.  Thanks!

Businesses who dropped off food/water/snacks/etc. or would not cross picket line:

Joan Norton and Associates – sponsored ice cream truck in dozens of locations

Compass Point Retirement Systems – Ice Cream Truck, water, snacks in multiple locations

Bolvin Wealth Management Group - Gina Bolvin - provided pizza and drinks to lines

Joseph's Bakery – South Boston

Gourmet Donuts – Leominster

Al Capone’s Pizza – Boston

Pisa Pisa Medford/Malden

Ronny’s Place Pizza Medford

Papa Gino’s Gallivan Boulevard – Dorchester

New Store on theBlock – Dorchester

Poncho’s Coffee Elm Street Malden

The IBEW 2222 Retiree’s Club

New England Coffee

Java House South Boston – Coffee /Muffins every day

Lori-Ann’s Bakery Brookline – baked goods every day

Pappas Properties –landlord for South Boston garages

Boston Athletic Club – Boston

Sidewalk Café – South Boston

Christelle’s Restaurant –West Roxbury

Carson Place – {caterer for Boston Teacher’s Union Hall} Daily

Kowloon – Saugus

Rosie Pizza – Braintree

Pat’s Trattoria – West Broadway South Boston

Liberty Bell Roast Beef – South Boston

Pat’s Pizza – Dorchester

Dunkin Donuts – Swansea MA  

Emerald Hall Function Facilities – Braintree

Boston Teacher’s Union Hall

Printing Unlimited- Holbrook –  donated printing services

Richard Advertising – Dorchester  donated printing services

Jobs With Justice daily multiple locations

Delta Airlines – rescheduled vacation tickets for a member

Tierney Sound and Video LLC – Reading – would not cross

McNiff Plumbing and Heating – would not cross

A Touch of Solitude Massage – would not cross

Pisa Pizza – would not cross

Salem Food Market - Washington St, Dedham - 50% off all orders

Friends of Post Office Square

Bostone Pizza - would not cross

Lino & Audreys Restaurant - Mystic Ave, Medford

Avellino's Restaurant - Mystic Ave, Medford

Raso's Restaurant - Mystic Ave, Medford

VFW - Mystic Ave, Medford

Starbucks Coffee - 1 International Place, Boston

Dockside Rivers View - Malden

Panera Bread - Everett

5 Hour Energy Drinks

Performance Piping - refused to cross

Sammy's Superette - Burlington

Sugurbowl - Dorchester

Cranberry Cafe - South Boston

The Local 2222 Annual C.O.P.E. (Committee On Political Education) Breakfast will be held on March 4, 2012 at Florian Hall, 55 Hallet Street, Dorchester.  This great event, sponsored by the C.O.P.E. Committee, will begin at 9:30 AM.   All members and their families are invited and encouraged to attend.

Now more than ever we need all the help we can get from our elected officials.  If you've never attended this event, please consider coming this year.  Get informed...Get Active...Get Involved.  Your job may very well depend on it.

For more information and to reserve your seats please call the Union office 617-929-6000.

YOU don't need to do EVERYTHING but YOU need to do SOMETHING

Verizon fired 40 union members for activities they engaged in during our recent strike, including five from local 2222. Strikes and strike activity have been protected under labor laws since the 1900’s. Our members who were fired recently did no more than voice their dissatisfaction at managers who were replacing them at their jobs. The termination of these employees 3 weeks before Christmas is wrong, and we will make sure the company knows how we feel.

We are ramping up our mobilization, as is the CWA.  Through our unified efforts, we will get our brothers back!  Stay tuned!

Wear Red on Thursdays to show our solidarity

Wear Black on Fridays in support of our wrongfully terminated members

Remember - YOU are not expected to do everything, but YOU are expected to do something.  Hang Tough!!!

Organized Labor sent an express mail message to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe for Martin Luther King Day: “Hands off our post office and our community!” Hundreds of community and labor activists picketed and rallied in the very heart of Boston on January 14th at the Grove Hall Post Office in Roxbury. It is slated for shutdown by May.

Subfreezing temperatures did not deter people from coming out to defend their jobs and their post office, so sorely needed for services in the community. Minister Don Muhammad of Nation of Islam Mosque 11 opened the rally by declaring, “If Dr. King were alive, he would be here with us today, to say again, ‘Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.’”

Boston City Councillors Charles Yancy, Felix Arroyo, Tito Jackson, Ayanna Pressley and Frank Baker came to give their support. Yancy related his meeting with Dr. King in 1965 and pledged, “We cannot and will not stay silent while they are laying off people at the post office.”

Unions brought out their members to the rally in significant numbers. Paul Kilduff, president of the 2200 member-strong Metro Local 100 of the American Postal Workers Union, while defending dozens of post offices in his jurisdiction, was nevertheless mindful of the impact on Roxbury residents. Under the proposed closings, thousands of people will have to take two buses to the nearest post office in Dudley Square. Kilduff called out: “Services that are desperately needed are being cut back. We will fight back. Whose post office? Our post office!”

Myles Calvey, business agent of IBEW Local 2222, rallied the demonstrators with the support of his union, which is currently in a contract struggle with Verizon Communications.  Steve Tolman, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, pledged the support of his 400,000 statewide members.

After several rounds of negotiations, Teamsters local 25 was left no option but to strike and we've been on the picket line since December 19, holding around the clock pickets through the holidays and into the new year. The company – a maker of roofing products and asphalt shingles – has yet to agree to come back to the negotiating table and so the strike continues.

At stake is the health and welfare of our 90 members. CertainTeed wants to drastically reduce the amount of health insurance they pay and, in return, give employees a one-time $1,000 bonus. These latest cuts come on top of other concessions CertainTeed workers have made in the past.

CertainTeed, based in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, is a subsidiary of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain of Paris. The French company acquired the locally owned Bird Corporation in 1998 and since then workers have slowly seen the stark differences between a local company who cares about its employees and a conglomerate only concerned with the bottom line.

Please support the picket line at CertainTeed, as Local 25 has supported us!

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