St. Patrick is known for driving the snakes out of Ireland. This St. Patrick’s Day, he tried to drive the snakes out of Verizon.

Chanting “Good jobs for Boston,” about two dozen young members of the Greater Boston Labor Council’s (GBLC) Futures Committee staged a quick in-and-out march through a Boston Verizon Wireless store on St. Patrick’s Day. See the video.

Rand Wilson of the AFL-CIO Field staff reports on the Solidarity Rally at Verizon’s New England headquarters.

With their union contracts set to expire this weekend, thousands of Verizon employees, members of the Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Communications Workers of America (CWA), took their fight for a fair contract to the front of the company’s New England headquarters in Boston yesterday.

Rosa Blumenfeld, organizer at the Greater Boston Labor Council, sent this report on April 4 actions there.

More than 500 union leaders, activists and community allies joined together outside the Massachusetts Republican Party headquarters in downtown Boston, in a driving rainstorm, today to speak out against the attacks on collective bargaining taking place in statehouses across America. We spotlighted efforts to repeal collective bargaining rights in the neighboring states of New Hampshire and Maine.

Rosa Blumenfeld, an organizer at the Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC), sends us this report.

What do you hear from your friends, family and fellow workers when you say the word “union”? What can we do, as young people, in the Boston area to create change? How do we talk to our co-workers about the union? How do we move them to take action for social and economic justice?