Verizon Workers May Go On Strike

Published on: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:22:41 -0700

Verizon workers may go on Strike if demands on their new contract agreement are not met by an August 2 deadline. The unions that represent over 65,000 Verizon employees are demanding a 5% annual wage increase, expanded medical benefits and limiting the number of outsourced jobs. With less than a week to go before a contract expires, several thousand telephone workers affiliated with the unions... Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers assembled at the verizon headquarters located in lower Manhattan. However... The timing of the alleged strike is posing a challenge for Verizon as it prepares to launch their FiOS digital TV, phone and Internet service in New York City this week.

Author: employmentcrossing
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Added: July 28, 2008