Forty-five thousand Verizon workers from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., are on the picket line Sunday as labour contract talks fizzled.
More than a fifth of the wireless giant’s work force has gone on strike as contract negotiations for the wireline division broke down last night.
Wireline workers handle local-phone operations, services for businesses and governments and long-haul wholesale traffic.
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