Verizon Workers Plan to End Walkout, Though Contract Remains Unsettled
Leaders of the unions that have been on strike against Verizon Communications
announced on Saturday that they were ending the walkout even though the two
sides had not reached an overall settlement for a new contract.
Beginning with the evening shift on Monday, the 45,000 striking workers will
return to their jobs, posts that they left on Aug. 7 in the nation’s largest
strike in four years, when General Motors workers held a two-day strike.
Union leaders are ending the walkout, they said, because Verizon management had
finally agreed to engage in serious bargaining on the contentious issues after
the company had originally insisted on negotiating more than 100 proposals for
concessions.
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