Your Association of BellTel Retirees kicked off 2022 with three different proxy proposals for the Verizon Annual Shareholder Meeting. Within days, we achieved a victory by successfully negotiating our first measure to become a new Verizon policy, expanding the role of the Human Resources Committee beyond executive pay. With the first post-pandemic Verizon Annual Meeting… Read More »

In January, your Association of BellTel Retirees achieved its first 2022 bylaw change victory in advance of the Verizon Annual Meeting. In doing so we successfully negotiated one of our three retiree proxy measures to become a new corporate policy. Why the change? The bylaw amendment requires the Verizon Board of Directors’ Human Resources Committee… Read More »

In 2021 the Association of BellTel Retirees formed a strategic alliance with Retirees for Justice to further the Association’s leadership role in fighting to protect and restore earned benefits for retirees and their families. Thanks to the support of your Association, Retirees for Justice has been able to communicate its core principles to key policy… Read More »

Greetings from Irving, Texas. I write you shortly after the 2022 Verizon annual shareowners meeting, the first in-person shareowners gathering since 2019, due to the pandemic. I must say, 2022 has started off strong for our Association. In early January, we achieved a new win as our proposal for the Verizon Board HR Committee to… Read More »