Verizon strike continues here
By staff, wire services
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Striking Verizon workers in New York and New England are expected to be back to work today after tentative agreements on a new contracts were made Sunday ending a 15-day strike. However, local Verizon workers in Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania still don't have a contract and don't know when they will.
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Negotiations between Verizon and the more than 35,000 remaining striking members of the Electrical Workers and the Communication Workers of America in the Mid-Atlantic States were continuing and expected to reach an accord early today, predicted Jim Smith, Verizon spokesman. A local union spokesman, though, wasn't as optimistic.
CWA workers at the Hagerstown Local 2105 office in Williamsport found out about the New York and New England agreement from on the Internet, said Jim Farris, union president.
He said he wasn't aware of the terms of the agreement or whether the strike was likely to end soon in Maryland.