Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Both sides say they will continue to negotiate as wireline employee strike for third day.
Spokespersons for Verizon and striking wireline employees said negotiators were back at the table Tuesday to close a gap in disputed items in contract talks that broke down after midnight on Saturday, and sent thousands of picketing workers into the street. "We will continue to negotiate until we reach an agreement that's fair to all sides," Verizon spokesman Rich Young said late Tuesday afternoon. Young, and, earlier in the day, IBEW Local 827 union president and business president and business manager, Bill Huber, said the negotiators were in Rye, N.Y., trying to move contract talks further along. Huber said top company and union officials were at the New York meeting, trying to reduce the amount of issues that are being disputed. As of …
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Monday, August 8, 2011
Police cars, but not demonstrators outside Verizon Center in Basking Ridge Monday afternoon.
Specially trained non-union employees who will pick up the slack for Verizon's striking union employees throughout the Northeast, including New Jersey, will include employees who normally fill other duties at the Verizon Center in Basking Ridge, a company spokesman said Sunday night. "We have deployed thousands of Verizon managers and others to Verizon work sites in New Jersey and other affected areas," Verizon spokesman Rich Young said Monday afternoon. The company has trained thousands of non-union employees in multiple states, including a few thousand from New Jersey, to pick up the repair, maintenance, installation and other office functions of the striking employees, Young had said on Sunday night. "Some employees from the (Basking …
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
Fill-in employees step in as contract negotiations fail with union wireline workers.
About 5,400 Verizon wireline employees are among the 45,000 workers on strike after contract talks broke off after midnight Saturday, when a three-year pact expired for wireline employees in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, Verizon and a union leader said Sunday morning. Verizon's 5,400 wireline employees were on the picket line at multiple locations in New Jersey, although not near the Basking Ridge Verizon Center, where they had demonstrated on Thursday night, according to Bill Huber, president and business manager for the New Jersey-based IBEW Local 827. Huber said workers could return again at some point to the Basking Ridge location, although that was not chosen on Sunday because it is a corporate center, and not a work location…
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Charles Mark Edgerton
8:26 am on Sunday, August 14, 2011
The Verizon wireline contracts were set at a time when all the Bells were part of AT&T. AT&T and Bell Labs were so far ahead in Telecommunications - made phones for the world! Then along came the government and broke up AT&T. Now phones for the world are made in asia. How dumb is our government? more ›