6/17/2010 To SuperMedia / Idearc Management Retirees: As part of the on-going class action of Murphy, et al, v. Verizon, et al, Idearc/SuperMedia, et al, our legal team has requested that we canvas our management retirees who were part of the Verizon Enterprises Management Pension Plan. This plan may have covered retirees who were part… Read More »

  Date of Update 03/31/08 DEAR ASSOCIATION MEMBER: If you are a Verizon shareowner, we urge you to VOTE FOR your Association’s shareholder resolution on Verizon’s proxy card for the upcoming Annual Meeting on May 1, 2008, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Please vote your proxy FOR Item 5 and Separate the Roles of Board Chairman and CEO.… Read More »

Verizon announced today that a new policy that requires shareholder approval of any new agreements with senior executives that provide for cash severance payments in excess of 2.99 times the sum of the executive’s salary plus annual short-term bonus. This proposal was submitted at the April 2003 Annual Meeting of Shareholders by the Association of… Read More »

Just short of the 9th year since the first organizational meeting, the Association signed up the 100,000th member, and a bonus, the 100,001st member – husband and wife.  A Virginia couple, both retirees of the C & P Company, joined the Association and pushed our membership over the 100,000th mark.  Margaret and Luther Becraft both… Read More »

The Association is fully committed to raising the level of awareness about issues that affect its membership.  But we need your help to continue these efforts. BellTel is frequently contacted by newspapers, magazines, television and radio outlets throughout the country looking to tell the story of retirees and the hardships they face.  These requests come… Read More »