Verizon Employees End Strike

An anonymous reader writes "Verizon today announced that the approximately 45,000 wireline employees represented by the CWA and IBEW that have been on strike will return to work beginning Monday night, August 22nd, without new collective bargaining agreements. Since the strike began two weeks ago, Verizon has been battling criminal acts of sabotage against its network facilities and union picketers intimidating non-union replacement workers and illegally blocking garage and work center entrances. One union picketer even went as far as to instruct his young daughter to stand in front of a Verizon truck to illegally block it from coming back to a Verizon work center in New Jersey. Verizon said the wireline employees now on strike would be working under the terms of the contracts that expired on Saturday, August 6th. The contracts will be extended with no specific deadline for achieving new collective bargaining agreements so that the parties can take the time required to resolve the critical issues, the company said."

Comments

Re:Sounded like a Verizon corporate press release

[perryizgr8]

yeah what is missing in this whole picture is that unionizing should be fucking illegal. you telling me the reason verizon's profit doubled is that these guys worked 2x harder?? or did work that was 2x more valuable?? i don't think so. they did the same thing they did last year. the profit came from the people above these union guys. their work actually created the value. but i am not surprised considering there is a super strong sense of entitlement in people these days, especially mediocre people.

Re:Eh, I bet Big Red begs to differ..

[iamhassi]

Obviously VERIZON don't think much about their customers if they are willing to ALLOW EMPLOYEES TO destroy Verizon equipment as a way to get back at the company.

There, fixed it for you.