Verizon landline workers are expected to return to work Monday night, without a new agreement, after striking for two weeks.
Verizon Communications Inc. announced on Saturday that their workers have ended their two-week strike and agreed to return to work from Tuesday under previous contract.
Barry is himself a labor activist and authored the book ‘Union Strategies for Hard Times.’
There are an estimated 7,000 Verizon workers on strike in the Garden State.
Here are some quotes taken from strikers on the picket line.
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The majority of these replacements have no telecommunications training and someone is going to get hurt bad unless Verizon settles this.?
Verizon said it is sending out letters to 45,000 striking employers that if they don?t return to work by then, their health care benefits will expire on August 31.
Strikers will also lose pension benefits, life insurance and other benefits.
According to Verizon spokesman Lee Gierczynski, the company?s base of landline telephone customers declined from 45 million to about 25 million in just the past five years.
Virtually all of the 45,000 employees on strike work for this struggling landline segment, prompting company officials to re-evaluate its cost structure,
The company said the replacements are handling customer service and network operational duties.
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South Africa is in the midst of a massive waves of strikes by tens of thousands of workers across many industries which threaten to paralyze the national economy.
Shortages of steel raised fears that the automobile industry would suffer production cuts and might have to lay off significant numbers of their own workers.
The following is a statement from Edwin D. Hill, International President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) regarding recent developments in the strike against Verizon.
Virtually all strikers are from the company?s struggling wireline division.
The last time Verizon workers went on strike was in August 2000, when members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) held a work stoppage for eighteen days.
Reportedly, incidents of wire-cutting by aggrieved strikers have interfered with the phone services of thousands of customers between Virginia and Massachusetts.
