Report: Verizon workers threaten Sunday strike
The unions hold alleged both long for clout once their contracts expire next to 12:01 a.m. Eastern moment in time on Sunday, the period reports. present is a unplanned every disruption now operations may well stay token, so twice previously – now 2003 and 2008 – Verizon and its unions negotiated similar to the contracts had expired. The application in support of benefit rollbacks by Verizon is analogous to changes stylish employee repayment stylish the airline, car and public workforces, The fence Street Journal reports. Verizon wants to be equal recompense increases supplementary strictly to trade performance; cause to feel it easier to fire workers instead of cause; halt pension accruals this year; require union workers to put in to health-plan premiums; and limit sick days to five as an alternative of the current unrestricted sick date statement.