Kucinich steps up to the plate for unions

[AnOhioan]

Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich announced to a cheering crowd of nearly 1,000 labor and community activists from New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont that he would intervene to block Verizon’s sale of its rural telecom business to Fairpoint, thus setting a new stage for a dramatic showdown between unions who are challenging the sale and the nation’s telecommunications industry which has long been immune from significant challenges for its failure to provide rural communities equal access to fiber optic service.

Kucinich, chairman of the Domestic Policy subcommittee of the Government Oversight and Reform Committee of the House of Representatives, announced at Prescott Park on the banks of Portsmouth Harbor, that he would hold a hearing to review Verizon’s sale to Fairpoint.

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Dennis has always stood up for the working men and women of our country. In fact, he is a dues paying member of IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees), a membership he never let lapse from his days as a TV camera man in Cleveland.