On NFL Draft Day - one of the biggest events in sports and a big-ticket marketing opportunity for sponsors such as Verizon Communications Inc. - the National Football League Players Association lined up alongside 39,000 striking Verizon workers.
"The NFLPA stands in solidarity with these striking workers who are seeking a fair and just contract for themselves and their families," DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the players' union, wrote Thursday.
Smith sent the letter to the presidents of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers as the unions' members' strike against Verizon was entering its 17th day, following talks Thursday in Philadelphia and Westchester, N.