The Communications Workers of America agreed on a...
The Communications Workers of America agreed on a contract with Verizon, the union said Wednesday. The contract, which covers 34,000 CWA-affiliated employees from Massachusetts to Virginia, will protect the workers’ job security and preserves employees’ current benefit pension plan, CWA…
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said. The agreement comes after 13 months of negotiations, which began after the workers’ old contract expired in August 2011. The expiration of the old contract initially also resulted in a “militant” two-week strike, CWA said. The union has also negotiated a new contract with Verizon for 70 CWA-affiliated technicians who maintain cell sites in the New York City metropolitan area. Local CWA unions will present the contract to members over the next few days. Voting on the contract will take about a month to complete, the CWA said (http://xrl.us/bnqhto). The union previously reached a tentative deal with AT&T on a contract that will cover more than 40,000 employees nationwide, AT&T said last week.