Photo Gallery: Verizon Protest

Communications Workers of America union members picket outside of the Verizon store in the Empire Center in Burbank on Monday, August 15, 2011 to support 45,000 Verizon workers on on strike on the east coast.

Communications Workers of America union members picket outside of the Verizon store in the Empire Center in Burbank on Monday, August 15, 2011 to support 45,000 Verizon workers on on strike on the east coast.  (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Verizon Protest

Communications Workers of America union members picket outside of the Verizon store in the Empire Center in Burbank on Monday, August 15, 2011 to support 45,000 Verizon workers on on strike on the east coast. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)  (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Verizon Protest

Communications Workers of America union members picket outside of the Verizon store in the Empire Center in Burbank on Monday, August 15, 2011 to support 45,000 Verizon workers on on strike on the east coast. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)  (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Verizon Protest

Communications Workers of America union members picket outside of the Verizon store in the Empire Center in Burbank on Monday, August 15, 2011 to support 45,000 Verizon workers on on strike on the east coast. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)  (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Verizon Protest

Communications Workers of America union members picket outside of the Verizon store in the Empire Center in Burbank on Monday, August 15, 2011 to support 45,000 Verizon workers on on strike on the east coast. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)  (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Verizon Protest

Communications Workers of America union members picket outside of the Verizon store in the Empire Center in Burbank on Monday, August 15, 2011 to support 45,000 Verizon workers on on strike on the east coast. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)  (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Verizon Protest

Communications Workers of America union member Bob Henderson hands out flyers to a driver outside of the Verizon store in the Empire Center in Burbank on Monday, August 15, 2011, during a protest to support 45,000 Verizon workers on on strike on the east coast. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)  (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Verizon Protest

Barbara Hartman with the Coalition of Labor Union Women and Carlos Castillon, president of the Communications Workers of America, Local 9588, lead a large group of union members in a chant during a protest outside of the Verizon store in the Empire Center in Burbank on Monday, August 15, 2011. The protest was held to support 45,000 Verizon workers on on strike on the east coast. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)  (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)