The strike, which is the biggest in the USA since a 2011 Verizon dispute, mostly involved workers who service the company’s landline phone business and FiOS broadband services.
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Both parties are continuing negotiations in Washington, D.C. under Labor Secretary Thomas Perez. Striking workers who do not receive a paycheck during the period are considered unemployed. Contract! When do we want it? There have been reports from Verizon’s Lake Mary Offices, that workers are being sent to other parts of the country to cover employment shortfalls from the striking workers.
“Yes, they were knocking on her window”, Bielski said.
The labor drama is also said to be distracting Verizon’s efforts on the wireless side, with Shammo noting Q2 upgrade activity was slow due to customers potentially waiting for new device launches later this year. Police had to close a street to conduct an investigation near a New Jersey school because a Verizon replacement worker left a bag with exposed wires behind.
“The other issue is the temporary transfers”, Mr. McHall said, referring to language in the contract that would allow mandatory employee transfers to cities as far as100 miles away.
Verizon has said it needs to protect replacement workers from harassment as the strike has reached its seventh week. “I’m in the fire department, and I’d like to stay here”.
Also, the strikers are involving local politicians to aid their cause. Last week, when those employees were fixing cable wires in a manhole on Jobs Lane in Southampton Village, the union members went over there and made their voices heard. Picket lines will be coming down Friday.
The analyst also the Verizon strike might trim $200 million from Verizon’s profit. “We need you for the labor movement and the American workers”, said Donna Edwards of the Maryland state and District of Columbia AFL-CIO. “The company is just starting to figure out that it’s the workers who actually do the work who keeps the company so successful”.
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The NLRB is seeking a court order to get nine Verizon union workers to stop picketing outside local hotels that house Verizon employees and subcontractors.
