Verizon Workers To Demonstrate Today
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Verizon workers, angry over the outsourcing of their jobs and potential benefit cuts, are planning to demonstrate in more than 150 locations in the state today in preparation for a possible strike next week, according to a representative from the workers’ union. The contracts of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers expire August 2 at midnight. The groups represent more than 65,000 Verizon workers, and both say they will go on strike if they don’t like the outcome of their new contract. In addition to the outsourcing of jobs, they want to prevent Verizon from cutting back on health care benefits and from stopping the unionizing of some of its workers. The union workers maintain Verizon’s telephone network and install their new fiber optic Internet and television network. The protesters will be in all five boroughs.