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Verizon Settlement Provides New Union Jobs, Protects Health Care for Active and Retired Workers, Boo
Washington, D.C. -- A new tentative three-year contract settlement with Verizon achieves union employees' major goals of promoting union jobs and expanding bargaining rights, providing good health care for both active and retired workers, and increasing wages and pensions for 65,000 workers fro
Verizon Negotiations Update, Aug. 8, 2008
August 8, 2008 — The CWA/IBEW Unified Bargaining Committees have set a bargaining deadline for completing contract negotiations with Verizon.
Verizon Bargaining Update, 4:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 9
The unions and the company continue marathon bargaining in an attempt to bring the contract in before the bargaining deadline of 12:01 am, Monday, Aug. 11.
Verizon Bargaining Update, 8 pm, Thurs., Aug. 7
Negotiations are continuing this evening. The parties are meeting and continue to make slow progress.
Verizon Bargaining Update for 5 pm, Thursday, Aug. 7
Verizon Bargaining Update noon, Wednesday, Aug. 6
Yesterday, the parties continued marathon bargaining throughout the day, ending at 11 p.m. last night. Today, negotiations have resumed.
Is progress being made? Yes. Is it slow going? Also yes. Do we have a plan for success? You bet.