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Verizon Pushes as Unions Stagger.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
By Scott Bernard Nelson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 2--With 79,200 workers from Virginia to Maine threatening to walk off the job as soon as tonight, Verizon Communications Inc. has said it would respond to a strike by relocating managers and nonunion employees to climb poles, string wire, and route calls. The nation's largest local phone service provider also is spending millions of dollars on newspaper and television advertisements describing how good its unionized workers have it in terms of wages and benefits.
Even in the contact sport that is labor relations, these are aggressive tactics. Verizon, like hundreds of other companies, is daring its workers to go on strike, citing the weak economy, international...
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