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Check out all the great letters everybody is sending to their new friends in the 1%. If you haven’t gotten yourself a pen pal yet, what are you waiting for? It’s lonely at the top. Choose a pen pal and help a banker feel just a little closer to the rest of us!

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  • Fair contract | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    Please give your workers a fair contract, they give everything to make sure you have billions in profits each year. Please consider what your customers want as well as your stockholders, and remember whose most important to your future as a successfully company.

    James bluma
    46307

  • taxes and bargaining | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    mr.lowell,dont you think its about time you and your head honchos,got off  your haunches,and pay your fair shares,even though you too are probably paying less than your secretaries?what used to be middle class america,thinks so.as well as do your  american duty and pay your employees fair wages,and bargain fairly.there is no question as to wheather you need them or not,its wheather or not you will do the right thing,and keep american jobs where they belong.in america!

    susan martin
    23860

  • Sometimes a board is just that... | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    .... a wooden plank that doesn't feel, listen or respond to its surroundings. I'm hoping that Verizon might be different because history tells us that when Bank America, Netflix, Dunkin Donuts didn't the customers reacted. Can I count on Verizon to pay its fair share of taxes, to reward and pay its employees in a manner equitable to what it pays it executives to make good decisions? Or do I need to rethink my association with Verizon? Your actions will speak loudly Mr. McAdam!

    Thom
    53213

  • Fairness to your corporations workers is critical to your success | 0  

    To: Daniel S. (Dan) Mead, Verizon
    The United States is going through a difficult period economically, while many of you who are already rich are prospering.  Just as we like fair play on our ball fields and courts, American industry ought to play by just rules.  That means you are in a position to urge fair play at Verizon and elsewhere in corporate boardrooms.  Now is the time.  If you do list, Verizon and its affliated businesses will realize consequences.  You yourself will never be poor.  But you will be disgraced.  If you look at the history of the American labor movement, despite you contempt for it, you will discover that business success depends on labor and good relations with workers.  It's your choice.

    Chaplain Stanley Howard Schwartz DD
    32119

  • Truly disgraceful what you earn, Bruan, and what you pay your workers! | 0  

    To: Brian T Moynihan, Bank of America
    Whatever happened to "decent, moral, fair compensation for the workers who earn your wealth, but do NOT share in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Dr. & Mrs. Cidis
    19348

  • FAIRNESS and Equality at Verizon | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    You expect your workers to give back their hard-won benefits and pay even while you and your moneyed peers wriggle out of your financial responsibilities to this country. 
    
    Pay your taxes and treat your workers with respect.

    Linda Richmond
    98061

  • Tax-Dodging | 0  

    To: Blair Crump, Verizon
    I am a Verizon customer and have been for 10 years. I believe in loyalty to businesses that provide excellent service and I select only businesses that are fair to their employees as well. This is why I am deeply worried about the treatment Verizon employees have been receiving. They have been so courteous to me while I can't say the same for employees of other businesses.
    
    You expect your workers to give back their hard-won benefits and pay even while you and your moneyed peers wriggle out of your financial responsibilities to this country. Pay your taxes and treat your workers with respect.
    
    Thank you for your prompt attention to this grievous situation.

    Maria Luna
    91755

  • You Pig, Noski | 0  

    To: Charles H Noski, Bank of America
    I respectfully submit that you represent the ugly side of Capitalism, and a disgrace to your country. You have forfeited the right to call yourself an American. 

    Robert OBrien
    01238

  • Please pay your fair share | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    I have been a loyal customer of Verizon for over ten years. I have an uncle that works for your company. You employ hundreds of people in and around my community. I do appreciate the good things you do.
    
    However, I also realize that this country has been shaken by the financial crisis. Income inequality has grown to epic proportions and the "trickle down" theory just doesn't work. 
    
    How can you ask for tax breaks, pay millions in bonuses each year, and then turn around and ask your employees to sacrifice? It is shameful.
    
    Please, help to shoulder the burden. Build up from the bottom instead of propping up the elite. We will all benefit in the long run.
    
    Thank you for your time,

    Natalie Avallone
    21131

  • You Bottom-feeding Scumbag, Price | 0  

    To: Joe L Price, Bank of America
    You are the ugly side of Capitalism, and a disgrace to your country. You have forfeited the right to call yourself an American. 

    Robert OBrien
    01238

  • You Bottom-feeding Scumbag, Moynihan | 0  

    To: Brian T Moynihan, Bank of America
    You are the ugly side of Capitalism, and a disgrace to your country. You have forfeited the right to call yourself an American. 

    Robert J OBrien
    01238

  • Work to make Verizon worth working for | 0  

    To: Peter W. Thonis, Verizon
    Are you proud of working for Verizon?  Or would you be happier if it acted more responsibly?  I hope that you want Verizon to be a company you can be proud of. 
    
    Please help make Verizon a better corporite citizen,

    Fred Oswald
    44130

  • You do not have to read this message but if you don't know what the Golden Rule is... | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    Treat others the way you would like to be treated.  You can't go wrong with that.  I have been tempted to take my business elsewhere for better rates and ethical standards, but the only reason I have been a loyal Verizon customer is because of the people who work and represent the company.  You get the best out of people when you treat them with the kind of respect you would want to work under.  Take your name off the stigmatizing list and be remembered in history as a leader of equity and common decency. 
    
    Thank you,

    Jia Lee
    10009

  • Fairness for everyone | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    Please do the right thing by your employees! They are the backbone of all corporations. Without them ,where would you be!?

    Susan
    11967

  • Bargain Fairly | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    Verizon needs to bargain fairly with it's 45,000 employees. Please bargain with good intentions.

    Brenda Elliott
    12528

  • RN struggles to live in NYC | 0  

    To: Vikram S Pandit, Partnership for NYC
    Dear Mr. Pandit:
    
    I am writing to you as a solidly middle class Manhattanite, a registered nurse at New York Presbyterian / Columbia University ("Columbia-Presbyterian"), who struggles every day to continue to live in New York City. 
    
    At the moment, my family and I are barely managing to remain here, despite what most would perceive as my highly respectable salary. But we simply can't compete with people who can afford $10 million apartments. And as sad as it is, it feels even worse to know that many of those people didn't actually EARN the money they are using to squeeze us out of our city; that money is ill-gotten gains, much of it paid by me and my fellow Americans as tax money -- and given to the banking industry to bail the bankers out. 
    
    Now those banks won't even pre-certify my husband and me to purchase an apartment -- the same banks that gladly accepted our bail-out money. And those bankers are still throwing "their" (read: MY) money around, keeping (luxury) real estate prices high, and squeezing most of us out of our homes.
    
    Thanks for your concern,

    Dara
    10040

  • Verizon workers | 0  

    To: Anthony J. (Tony) Melone Sr., Verizon
    Like many thousands of other Americans, I applaud the efforts of Verizon workers to defend our standard of living and democratic ideal against corporate greed. They carry the ball for all of us.  Herman Benson   

    Herman Benson
    11106

  • Please pay your fair share in taxes & support a fair contract with workers | 0  

    To: Francis J. (Fran) Shammo, Verizon
    Dear Mr. Shammo,
    
    I am writing to ask you to please stop using pressure tactics to lower corporate and individual capital gains taxes. People who do well in America should do well by America.
    
    Also, please support a fair contract with your workers. We will need to move our business to Comcast if Verizon continues to treat its workers unfairly, by not agreeing on a just contract with them. 
    
    Thank you very much!

    Miriam Shako
    19072

  • Verizon customers care about Verizon works, not the cushy execs | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    Dear Mr. Lowell,
    
    As a Verizon customer, I am beyond disappointed in your company's approach to business and worker rights. Taking away your workers' benefits and not paying your fair share of taxes is as despicable as it is un-American.
    
    If you do not grant your workers the benefits THEY DESERVE and the federal taxes YOU OWE THIS COUNTRY for housing your business, then I will happily move my family and I to a different cell phone company. In fact, I think I'll go ahead and cancel my plan by the end of the week and encourage all of my friends and family that use Verizon to do the same.
    
    
    Sincerely,
    An angry American and customer

    emily howe
    10023

  • Verizon | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    Dear Lowell McAdam, please pay your taxes. In these hard economic times we can't afford for the biggest corporations to avoid taxes. Thanks for your consideration.

    Ben MacDonald
    01756

  • Cable-vision is looking better all the time. | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    When I heard about Fios, I couldn't wait to subscribe to Verizon because Cablevision , my only choice till then, treated it's people so poorly, and I knew that Verizon took care of it's workers. Well, I thought I knew anyway.Gentlemen, the workers of America are your customers, and we are watching. Get us riled up enough, and we'll stick together like you can't believe. If you don't believe me, ask Governor Scott Walker how its going out in Wisconsin. I'm not talking threats, I'm talking consequences. 

    Carl Rotolo

  • How will history judge today's corporate leader. | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    Corporate leaders of the 19th century like Morgan, Carnage and Rockefeller are thought of today by many as the "Great Robber Barons".
    Man who made fortunes while the blue collar people who worked for them subsisted. Verizon is a great company and the people who made it great do not just work in corporate board rooms but in bucket trucks, customer service offices and in customers homes. Our national economy depends on people like these being able to buy homes and cars and being able on put their children through school. A fair contract is all they ask. For the sake of Verizon's and even your own personal legacies and allow your workers to have a fair contract. Thank you for listening.

    Michael Panzarella, customer
    18337

  • Limiting the the struggle to survive | 0  

    To: Ivan G Seidenberg, Verizon
    There are corporations  small in number I  admit, that take quality care of it's employees eliminating turnover and other negatives. One such company comes to mind started in 1895 and Harvard refers to it as  a teaching tool. 
    I hope Verizon can find concern for it's employee base to do better than just survive.
    
    Your customer,

    Gerard Swainson
    22032-1213

  • a fair share | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    Please do all in your power to see that workers' rights are respected and that they get a contract that will give them a fair share of Verizon's profits and provide them with decent benefits.
    

    Sharon Krauze
    10009

  • You owe your wealth to your employees! | 0  

    To: Lowell C McAdam, Verizon
    I am a Verizon customer since 2006. I have no intention of renewing my contract when it expires this April because I support unions, and I expect the companies I buy services from to treat their employees fairly. When you do not negotiate with your employees represented by the Communications Workers of America, you are not treating your employees fairly. You can do better.

    Shellee Billings
    98507

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