{"id":15167,"date":"2016-06-02T08:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T13:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15167"},"modified":"2016-06-02T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T13:45:56","slug":"apwu-verizon-strikers-win-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/06\/02\/apwu-verizon-strikers-win-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: Verizon Strikers Win New Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15168\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/verizon-win.jpg\" alt=\"verizon-win\" width=\"332\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/verizon-win.jpg 332w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/verizon-win-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/verizon-win-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>More than 40,000 striking Verizon workers returned to work on June 1, after the company and union negotiators signed a tentative agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis contract is a victory for working families across the country and an affirmation of the power of working people,\u201d said Chris Shelton, president of the Communications Workers of America. \u201cIt proves that when we stand together we can raise up working families, improve our communities and advance the interests of America\u2019s working people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>APWU President Mark Dimondstein commended the Verizon workers for \u201cstanding firm over the course of a 46-day work stoppage, despite the fact that the company brought in &#8216;replacement workers&#8217; and discontinued the strikers\u2019 health coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey won a great victory by standing up for themselves, their families and working people everywhere.\u201d Dimondstein also praised the APWU locals that organized members to support Verizon workers and walked with them on picket lines in many cities.<\/p>\n<p>The strike by members of the CWA and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers began April 13.\u00a0 Union members will vote to ratify the tentative agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the proposed agreement, Verizon agreed\u00a0that no additional jobs will be outsourced overseas and the number of calls routed to domestic call centers will be increased. &#8220;This agreement makes\u00a0a lot of progress in\u00a0reversing the outsourcing trend,&#8221; said IBEW Local 827 Business Manager Robert Speer.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon also granted raises and agreed to drop its\u00a0demand that technicians had\u00a0to be available to travel outside their home areas for up to two months at a time.<\/p>\n<p>The company raked in $39 billion in profits in the last three years, but still demanded concessions from workers during contract negotiations. \u201cVerizon relented only because the workers\u2019 power disrupted their operations,\u201d Dimondstein said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40,000 striking Verizon workers returned to work on June 1, after the company and union negotiators signed a tentative agreement. \u201cThis contract is a victory for working families across the country and an affirmation of the power of working people,\u201d said Chris Shelton, president of the Communications Workers of America. \u201cIt proves that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15169,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions\/15169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}