If you have seen news about the Verizon strike on the East Coast and are a wireless customer, you don't have to worry because it is only a strike for wireline Verizon communications workers. Verizon landline customers, however, have experienced some outages and problems.
It also looks like the strikers phone service has not been affected because in a photo it shows them having cell phones using cameras.
The Communications Workers of America has filed unfair labor practice
charges against Verizon Communications for labor law violations in
contract negotiations. The charges, filed with National Labor Relations Board offices
in New York and Baltimore, make the case that Verizon has refused to
bargain in good faith with CWA.
CWA is urging the NLRB to immediately order Verizon management to drop
its refusal to bargain and negotiate in good faith as the law require
The strike by workers in the Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers began at midnight Saturday, Aug. 6
According to Verizon, call centers answered 91% of incoming calls on Wednesday where striking workers have been replaced by trained more than 40,000 managers, retirees and contractors.
In order to thwart violence and sabotage, Verizon has been granted statewide injunctions in New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, and filed for in courts in Massachusetts and New Jersey.
Verizon is aksing for changes to the previous contract that include requiring union workers to pay health-care premiums. IT also wants to freeze existing pension plans, claiming it will increase 401(k) contributions, and to be able to implement more flexible work rules.