No Layoffs: Verizon committed to not involuntarily laying off Communications Workers of America (CWA) represented employees for four years after the transaction closes.
Applies To: This protection covers current CWA employees and those hired under the deal's new hiring commitments.
Hiring Commitment: As part of the agreement, Verizon also committed to hiring at least 600 new full-time CWA-represented employees over six years.
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@fb. Bingo!
So this doesn’t look good for all Vz employees non union. They’re not going to add this many people onto payroll that they can’t lay off. They’re going to lay us off instead
70% of Workforce is Union.
Many
@a2 Hired after 2003 would be the question. Vz would need to offer an EISP and get rid of all contractors on the wireline side. Not gonna happen.
They could still offer an ISP/EISP. Don’t know what their seniority looks like
This refers to California area. Frontier also has IEBW union members in some areas. Total of 13k employees in front print.
Not all frontier uses the cwa union tho. Fyi
How many union employees were hired with no pension and no job security in the past 20 years?