Verizon Strike Escalates With Armed Confrontation in the Philippines

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Source: Fortune

Tim Dubnau knew that helping lead a strike of almost 40,000 workers against Verizon Communications was going to be tough. But he had no idea that he would find himself, as he did on Wednesday, crammed in the back of an unmarked white van, terrified, being chased through the streets of Alabang, a city on the outskirts of Manila, by a group of armed men on motorcycles.

And the situation only got more tense when the men surrounded the van, forcing it to pull over, and called in a SWAT team of heavily armed Philippine police officers.

“It was like being in a movie–they were dressed all in black with masks and automatic rifles,” Dubnau recalled in an interview with Fortune. “At first they were demanding that we get out. One officer even hit the door with his gun. But we didn’t open up, we knew our rights.”

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Read more: http://fortune.com/2016/05/12/verizon-strike-armed-confrontation-philippines/

[LiberalArkie]

1. That has to hurt VZ making Fortune Mag and Fortune Mag having a reporter there.

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2. Omaha Steve broke the story this morning on DU before anyone

else picked it up. Unfortunately some DU member saw to it the post was hidden.

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3. Yes - Steve's post has 123 recs - it made me very angry to see that locked

so I looked for related news stories and posted them.

Steve's orginal post:

"CWA Uncovers Massive Verizon Offshoring Operation in Philippines"
Source: CWA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141449133

My other two LBN posts on this, posted seperately because how the fuck am I supposed to know what they consider a valid source over at AntiUnionReaganDemocrats.com:

"Union officials, SWAT police face off in Philippines amid ongoing Verizon labor dispute"
Source: UPI
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=myposts

"CWA union says it faced “SWAT team armed with automatic weapons” after uncovering “massive Verizon offshoring operation in Philippines”
Source: Salon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141449643

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4. Thank you for the reply, with references. I haven't been around

much today.