Verizon to Move up to 550 Jobs at Middleton, Mass., Operation to Dallas.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2000 by Howe, Peter J.

Sep. 14--Verizon Communications said yesterday it will move 500 to 550 of its 1,000 jobs at a Middleton directory publishing business to Dallas over the next nine months.

The company, created from the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, said it has no idea yet how many if any people could be laid off. It said anyone not offered a new position in Dallas will be offered extensive job-placement assistance. Only management positions, not union jobs, are involved, Verizon said.

While Bell officials had warned employees in Middleton in January that some jobs there might be moved as part of the merger, people familiar with the office said many employees were devastated by the news, especially those nearing retirement and pension-collecting age, and unhappy...

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