Verizon headquarters in Manhattan on May 12, 2015.
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This contract covers employees from 9 states from Virginia to Massachusetts who now work for the wireline business of Verizon.
The contract set to expire on August 1 affects wire workers as well in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, along with the District of Columbia.
The choose to actually strike isn’t an automatic do business in the wireline enterprise, which involves FiOS Internet, call and television solutions, seem to reappear to any cease clearly as the wood panel along the trade unions Communications Workers of America (CWA) and global Brotherhood of Electrical Workers representing the staff haven t yet endorse it.
At the rally in New York, the CWA announced that 86 percent of Verizon workers who voted in a recent poll backed strike action if required.
The company’s union-represented employees in the East work under 27 collective bargaining agreements in nine eastern states in the United States and Washington D.C. Verizon’s plans to cut costs by conrolling healthcare and pension-related benefits over a three-year period are at the center of union negotiations.
About 45,000 Verizon workers went on strike in August 2011 for about two weeks. “Verizon has presented the CWA and IBEW with a solid proposal that recognizes the changing communications landscape and offers a path towards success”.
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Young said some parts of the contract were dated by more than a decade and has lost its relevance in the telecom industry which is reeling from structural changes and pressure. He also added that the company was training non-union employees who would be able to take up the additional jobs so that customers weren’t disrupted at all even if these employees did go on strike.
