Due to the issues that had stated in management, the employees in the Verizon Communications Inc. had brought this issues to the union because they unsatisfied with the management where the company is seeking to cutbacks in retirement benefits, asking employees to shoulder more health-care costs and looking for more leeway to shrink its payroll. In 2011, The Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union (IBEW) which are covering more than 45,000 of its employees were negotiated with Verizon Comunication Inc. The unions are seeking greater benefits in health care and retirement, and are pushing for job-security provisions and commitments from the company to build new fiber-optic networks in areas lacking service.
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The reason union officials had originally called the strike because they felt they were not being taken seriously and because Verizon was insisting on so many and such sweeping concessions. Verizon was hardly budging from its original position, the unions said, and another point of contention. Verizon is pushing for, among other things, a pension freeze for current workers, fewer sick days, an end to all job security provisions, far larger employee contributions toward health coverage, and freedom to do as much outsourcing as it
The reason union officials had originally called the strike because they felt they were not being taken seriously and because Verizon was insisting on so many and such sweeping concessions. Verizon was hardly budging from its original position, the unions said, and another point of contention. Verizon is pushing for, among other things, a pension freeze for current workers, fewer sick days, an end to all job security provisions, far larger employee contributions toward health coverage, and freedom to do as much outsourcing as it