Word: verizons
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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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...
...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...
...never easy to have a phone line installed in New York City, but on Monday it was well nigh impossible. Thanks to the striking Verizon workforce, thousands of requests usually filled by the Bell Atlantic-GTE offshoot went unanswered, even as company officials continued their talks with about 85,000 deeply disgruntled employees. The workers, who tend to the telephone needs of roughly 25 million Verizon customers, primarily along the eastern seaboard, are up in arms over the company's refusal to allow wireless employees to unionize. There are other labor issues at stake as well - forced overtime, job stress...
...country's traditional telephone workforce, remains an unreachable ideal for many in the wireless world. Telecommunications giants, basking in their newfound power over the wireless marketplace, jealously guard any competitive advantage and discourage union talk among their new employees, occasionally to the point of intimidation (at least one Verizon worker has reported threats from management after she began looking into union membership...
...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...