45,000 Verizon Workers Strike As Last-Minute Contract Negotiations Fall Through
Having trouble reaching your Verizon telephone contact today? Could be because he or she, along with 45,000 other workers, went on strike at midnight following failed 11th-hour contract negotiations. Verizon claims customers will only experience “limited disruption” due to the strike because manager-level employees and retirees are quickly filling the just-vacated union ranks. The company…