In the middle of August, UNITE HERE announced it was rallying to support the CWA in their strike against Verizon. UNITE HERE offered to: • adopt local Verizon stores • coordinate picket support • provide food trucks at major city picket lines • raise money for the strike fund One more example of wasted effort and squandered resources of hard-working dues payers, for a union not their own. Richard Epstein posted earlier a prognostication that the strike would shortly end with CWA going back to work with no contract, a prediction that has since come true. In his latest post on the events, he opines that the end of the strike coupled with the fallacious board action against Boeing by NLRB general counsel Lafe Solomon may weaken President Obama’s ability to continue to bolster Big Labor.
