Thousands of labor union members are planning to march across the Brooklyn Bridge Monday afternoon in a show of solidarity with the Spectrum cable workers who have been striking since March for a better contract.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, along with labor leaders and other elected officials, are expected to join the march starting at Cadman Plaza Park before workers head across the bridge to Foley Square Park.
1800 IBEW Local 3, an electrical union with thousands of members, has been on strike against Spectrum since March.
The union says Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable (which was purchased by Charter and is now known as Charter Spectrum) haven’t been bargaining in good faith for several years.
Charter says it has been offering “a generous compensation package,” according to a report in The Brooklyn Eagle.
The monthslong strike has fueled speculation that the workers were behind some of the recent vandalism to Spectrum's fiber-optic network that knocked out Internet to thousands of customers across the city. The union has denied having anything to do with the vandalism.
This isn't the first bridge march for the striking workers: in August, Spectrum workers marched across the George Washington Bridge.
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