Tensions rise in Verizon strike, two striking workers injured (by scab)

[Omaha Steve]

http://buffalo.ynn.com/content/top_stories/552842/tensions-rise-in-verizon-strike--two-striking-workers-injured/

08/08/2011 08:09 PM
Tensions rise in Verizon strike, two striking workers injured

By: Doug Sampson

VIDEO at link.

Snip: In Amherst, two striking employees were sent to the hospital after a temporary worker pushed through the picket line with his car.

"The picketers are illegal picketing and denying access to driveways and entrances to buildings,” said Verizon spokesman John Bonomo. “So when our managers try to enter those buildings they're trying to be denied access."

"Whether or not people were standing there, they weren't moving, that's all subject to interpretation,” said James Wagner, the president of the CWA Local 1122 Union. “That doesn't make it right for a 2,500 pound weapon and drive through without yielding the right of way."



Investigators say both were treated for minor injuries at Millard Fillmore Hospital and released. Police have not filed charges.

FULL story at link.

[blueknight]

1. they need ( the strikers )

to keep some bricks handy