IBEW Members Ratify
Contract with Verizon
(Washington, DC) The International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers announced today its members covered
by the recently negotiated agreement with Verizon ratified the contract,
with 90 percent voting "yes."
"The negotiating team won a solid
contract protecting job security and health insurance and enhancing
pay and retirement benefits," said IBEW President Edwin D. Hill.
"We are glad that such an overwhelming majority recognized their
good work. We are hopeful that this process will mark the beginning
of an era of improved labor-management relations at Verizon."
The IBEW represents approximately 22,000
Verizon workers covered by this agreement in New England, New Jersey,
upstate New York and Pennsylvania.