Action Alert: Clear Channel Screws Over Workers, Many Military Vets

From The Union Review:

Boston, MA. Texas-based Clear Channel Outdoor chose the week of Memorial Day to tell striking billboard workers, including a significant number of U.S. Military veterans employed by the company, that they no longer had jobs. Members of Sign Local #391 have been on strike in Eastern Massachusetts since March 19th.

The striking workers including U.S. Army and U.S. Marine veterans met with U.S. Senator John Kerry to ask for his support and assistance in settling the strike.

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"The upper management of Clear Channel is nothing more then cowards, hiding in corporate offices in Texas, while stealing jobs from workers who have served in the country's military branches," said Painters District Council #35 Communications Director John Laughlin. "Clear Channel Executives didn't have the courage to face these workers at the bargaining table and now they'd leave veterans and their families in the street on Memorial Day".
The strikers, members of Sign & Pictorial Local #391, work on hanging and posting over 2400 billboards in Eastern Massachusetts. Most have at least 10 years, and many more than 25 years, of working for Ackerley Communication, AK Media and now Clear Channel, which bought the company five years ago. After 18 months of negotiations, Clear Channel abandoned bargaining and unilaterally implemented a $60-a day paycut, a 7-day work week, took away pensions and health care from the workers and eliminated the grievance and union security protections. Clear Channel's actions forced the workers onto the street and the Union to file Unfair Labor Practice charges with the federal government.

Here is Clear Channels contact form for sign advertising.  Be sure to make it known that they are scumbags who aren't getting your business.

In the comments section, provide any known businesses who are using Clear Channel signs to advertise their business with contact information.  We need to let them know that if they do business with Clear Channel, they won't be doing business with us.  It's time to do to Clear Channel what we did to Ann Coulter