IBEW 2222 Business Manager Myles Calvey addresses the crowd in Boston...

...while IBEW Local 2222 Business Agent & Mobilization Director Dave Reardon addresses union members at the Shareholders Meeting in Nebraska

Local 2222 members rallied in Boston and around the country as IBEW and CWA members delivered thousands of shareholder votes of "no confidence" in Verizon's top management and protested Verizon's divisive approach to managing employees at the company's annual shareholder meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Prior to the meeting, union members and community supporters leafleted shareholders and top executives with a message of concern about the divisive direction that CEO Ivan Seidenberg is taking the company. Verizon's top executives have created an artificial wall separating its wireless and large business operations from wireline, which includes FiOS, too often resulting in dissatisfied or confused customers. Verizon workers are especially concerned about how management is aggressively interfering in the freedom of workers in the Verizon Wireless and Verizon Business segments to unite in the IBEW and CWA for the good jobs our communities need.

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