The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 827 praised the...
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 827 praised the Justice Department’s conditional approval of a spectrum deal among Verizon, Comcast and other cable companies, the local said Wednesday. The union’s input over the past eight months “appears to have…
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had a material impact on the outcome of the review process by contesting the deal as originally proposed by Verizon,” the union said. It cited how negotiations in recent months “substantially changed the deal Verizon and Comcast originally crafted by limiting many of the anti-consumer aspects the union had identified during the review process.” In light of this decision, “Verizon should settle the contract [under negotiation and of which there’s ‘long overdue’ settlement] and let us get back to what we do best, maintaining New Jersey’s copper wire based infrastructure and completing the build out and installation of the FiOS system that was promised to consumers through Opportunity New Jersey,” Local 827 President William Huber said in a statement. Local 827 represents about 5,000 telecom workers in New Jersey.