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Verizon. Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon ( / vəˈraɪzən / və-RYE-zən ), is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate. The company is incorporated in Delaware, and headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. [3] Verizon's capital stock is a component of the Dow ...
The 2016 Verizon workers' strike was a labor action in the United States involving about 40,000 Verizon Communications landline and Verizon Fios workers. The strike, which began April 13, was organized by trade unions International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Communications Workers of America, and represents the biggest labor action in the United States since the Verizon strike ...
The company was referred to as "New York Telephone, a NYNEX Company" before being called simply "NYNEX" starting on January 1, 1994. On August 15, 1997, NYNEX was acquired by Bell Atlantic, who kept the Bell Atlantic name. On June 30, 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE to form the current Verizon Communications, with the corporate headquarters ...
But Verizon, the telecommunications giant, seems to have found a way to hold onto its employees. The average tenure of around 110,000 workers is 12.9 years, well over three times the U.S. average .
Verizon's "well-planned and anticipated" move to lower its headcount will offer employees up to 60 weeks of salary, bonuses and benefits, depending on the length of their careers at Verizon, the ...
The Communications Workers of America ( CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico ). [1] [2] The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (French: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique ...
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On August 5, 2000, 85,000 union workers walked out on Verizon and began to strike. There were two union groups that went on strike, the Communication Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. There were different reasons why the two union groups went on strike. The first reason was due to the merger of Bell ...