Verizon Wireless Settles With Seattle Worker: CWA
Verizon Wireless reached a settlement with Seattle-based retail worker Jesse Mason after terminating him last year, Communications Workers of America said Thursday. “The settlement includes Mason’s reinstatement at his Seattle and Shoreline stores as well as compensation for back pay…
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and damages,” CWA said. The union filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last year. “Mason’s return to work marks another major victory for Verizon Wireless workers, who have been organizing at stores across the country to secure living wages, better working conditions and staffing levels,” CWA said, saying Verizon retail workers first organized at three stores in Brooklyn, New York, in 2014 and “have since been gaining momentum, organizing and forming unions in Washington, Oregon and Illinois.”