(Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) — Verizon employees could walk out on Sunday after what the company is calling “challenging negotiations” on new contracts.
The company says it made a “comprehensive initial offer” in June, including a wage increase, but that union leaders “countered with a series of proposals that did virtually nothing to advance the process of negotiations.” Verizon has been negotiating with the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers for nearly seven weeks.
A statement from the CWA says that the union offered up a new proposal on Saturday and claims that Verizon “hasn’t moved off its initial June 22nd proposal that made outrageous demands of Verizon workers.”
“It’s time for management to get serious, and back off its insistence on slashing the living standards of our members,” says Dennis Trainor, Vice President for CWA District One — covering workers from New Jersey to Massachusetts.
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