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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters joined Verizon Communications workers on Friday in a march to denounce corporate greed as the company and 45,000 employees negotiate a new labor contract.
The march by about 500 people to a Verizon store in Lower Manhattan coincided with the top U.S. mobile provider reporting a third-quarter profit of $1.38 billion, more than double its profit for the same quarter last year.
Support from unions across the United States has helped boost the ranks of the Occupy Wall Street movement against economic inequality, which began five weeks ago and sparked protests nationwide and globally.
"We're all in this together," Verizon worker Steven Jackman, 53, from Long Island, said of joining forces with Occupy Wall Street.
The unionized workers negotiating a new contract, who went on strike for two weeks in August, represent roughly half Verizon's wireline workforce.
"Until we get money out of politics, nothing will change," said Occupy Wall Street protester Richard Fisher, 55, who joined the Verizon march. "I haven't had a job since 2008. My unemployment ran out. There are no jobs."
But some people are asking what will happen next with the Occupy Wall Street movement, which critics say does not have a clear message.
The protesters say they are upset that the billions of dollars in bank bailouts during the recession allowed banks to resume earning huge profits while average Americans have had no relief from high unemployment and job insecurity.
They also believe the richest 1 percent of Americans do not pay their fair share in taxes.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that Occupy Wall Street's camp headquarters -- set up in a privately owned, publicly accessible park in the city's financial district on September 17 -- had become a "tourist attraction."
Bloomberg told a local radio show there was little the city could do about the protesters until the park owners, Brookfield Office Properties, made an official complaint.
Bloomberg said authorities would start enforcing a rule requiring protesters to have a city permit for any marches.
"There are businesses and people going to work and going to school. There's (protesters) drumming in the middle of the night. There's people just using the streets as bathrooms," Bloomberg said.
Last week, a showdown between protesters and New York police was averted when Brookfield postponed a cleanup, which demonstrators feared was a bid to remove them.
The protests have been driven by social media, culminating in global rallies last weekend, which were mostly peaceful apart from Rome, where there were riots.
Earlier on Friday, Occupy Wall Street protesters were among a couple hundred people who rallied in Harlem against the New York Police Department's "stop and frisk" policy, which critics say targets black and Latino New Yorkers. About 30 protesters were arrested for disorderly conduct, police said.
In Cincinnati, police cleared a downtown park on Friday where protesters had been camping, arresting 23 people, while six protesters were arrested in Tampa, Florida.
(Additional reporting by Sinead Carew and Joan Gralla in New York, Joe Wessels in Cincinatti and Ileana Morales in Tampa; Writing by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Greg McCune and Peter Cooney)
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dualcitizen wrote:
It doesn’t matter if they disrupt everyone else’s job, just like everyone else they’re complaining about it’s all “about me”. Go on strike from a good job and collect unemployment! So called “working people”. Bunch of socialist jerks.
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castnet55 wrote:
If verizon buckles to the mob I’ll change carriers. I have no respect for any company that will allow itself to be abused by it’s employees.
These workers make good money for the work that they do and perhaps they are under the impression that they are worth more.They aren’t if the company says enough.
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