Regional Bargaining Report # 55 Friday, March 18, 2016 As bargaining in Philadelphia resumed this week, high level discussions took place in an attempt to find a way to move negotiations toward a successful resolution.

CWA District 2-13 Vice President Ed Mooney will be speaking at our CWA Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 7pm. The address is: IBEW Local 26 Meeting Hall 4371 Parliament Place, Lanham Md. 20706 Vice President Mooney will also be speaking on Wednesday March 23, 2016 at 5pm.

We will be doing “informational picketing” in the work places on Thursday 3-17-16 from 7:15am-7:45am wear “RED”. We will be leafletting the Verizon Wireless store on Sat. 3-19-16 from 10am-2pm. The address is 1314 F St. N.W. Wash. D.C. 20004.

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is acquiring competitive provider XO Communications’ fiber business for $1.8 billion, giving it an expanded network to deepen its Ethernet penetration while satisfying its small cell and wireless backhaul needs. Buying XO’s fiber makes sense for Verizon on a number of levels.

Verizon Communications Inc., the largest U.S. wireless provider, may sell bonds backed by the payments its customers owe for financing phones. While other companies such as Sprint Corp. have used the technique to obtain private loans, Verizon would be one of the first wireless carriers to issue bonds that use expected monthly phone payments from its customers as collateral.

complacency [kuh m-pley-suh n-see] /k?m?ple? s?n si/ noun, plural complacencies. 1. a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc. Don’t let this be you. STAY INFORMED! GET INVOLVED.

Frontier Communications Corp. has received clearance from federal antitrust regulators of its proposed acquisition of Verizon Communications, Inc., assets in California, Florida, and Texas. The companies still need approval from the FCC and state authorities. Frontier said the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2016. © Copyright 2015. Aspen Publishers.

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