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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Take the Verizon strike, in which management took the risk of a labor walkout and then discovered that in the high-tech, high-growth telecommunications industry, where employees are hard to find, hard to train and harder to keep, the lowly worker has quite a bit of clout. Some of the workers' victories in the deal, reached early Monday, that should effectively end the 15-day strike, according to the Wall Street Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verizon's 'People' Prove Plenty Powerful | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...Continued job security: The Communications Workers of America again secured from Verizon a guarantee of no layoffs for the life of the contract. Verizon, a spiffy new name for the combined Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and GTE, did win the right to move more employees around the company - up to 2.1 percent of workers - than it could before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verizon's 'People' Prove Plenty Powerful | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...Time-outs for harried reps: Verizon was forced to guarantee "close time," during which service reps may shut off their stations to reduce stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verizon's 'People' Prove Plenty Powerful | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...Performance bonuses: Customer service reps can now be offered incentive awards for individual performance. This was actually a victory for Verizon; unions historically hate that sort of member differentiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verizon's 'People' Prove Plenty Powerful | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...problem for Verizon management, of course, is that this isn't the pre-Norma Rae era, when the media were less clued in to labor issues and management could double-talk their way through negotiations without sustaining any serious damage. And of course, today's tight labor market gives workers' demands a great deal more economic weight. The Verizon workers who walked out Monday know they've got considerable clout - after all, if management can't find a way to get them back to work soon, Verizon corporate types could have the whole of New York City to contend with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verizon Strike Leaves Calls Waiting | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

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