Cablevision Systems Corporation
CVC filed a lawsuit today against the Communications Workers of
America (CWA) District 1 and Local 1109 (collectively the "CWA Union"), in New
York State Supreme Court, Nassau County, for making patently false and
defamatory claims about the speed and quality of Cablevision's Internet
service in Brooklyn, New York.
Commenting on the lawsuit and the CWA Union, Cablevision offered the following
statement:
"The CWA Union has acted in a deceptive and libelous manner with the
deliberate intention of harming Cablevision, misleading our customers and
injuring the reputation of our company. It is outrageous that the CWA and
its Local 1109, which represents a small number of employees in one
Cablevision facility in Brooklyn, would resort to these actions as part of a
malicious campaign to intimidate our company. This is an insult to our
Brooklyn employees and our customers, and we are taking legal action to
ensure that this illegal behavior stops."
The complaint asserts that since October 2012, the CWA Union has been engaged
in an unlawful campaign to discredit and libel Cablevision and its business.
The centerpiece of its campaign has been the widespread dissemination of
intentionally false and malicious information about Cablevision, most
particularly about Cablevision's internet speeds. The CWA has ignored
repeated requests to cease and desist with these illegal actions.
Cablevision's lawsuit asserts that the CWA Union has made and continues to
make false and defamatory statements to the media, government officials,
directly to Cablevision subscribers, and to the public through their websites
that "internet speeds for Cablevision customers in Brooklyn are approximately
25% slower than for Cablevision customers in the Bronx" and that "speeds are
slower in Brooklyn than the rest of the city." The CWA Union has made
additional statements in the media and elsewhere that Cablevision is
purposefully providing an inferior service to its Brooklyn customers.
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