5 Sticking Points in Verizon Negotiations

摘要

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union lists five primary areas of dispute in its contract negotiations with Verizon:rn1. Verizon's demand for "sharply increased" worker payments for health care coverage. The union is resisting cost shifting on a health care plan that is expected to cost $30,000 per year for a family in 2011.rn2. Verizon's demand that all workers who retire after Jan. 1, 2009, pay for health care.rn3. Total elimination of retiree health care coverage for new hires.rn4. Verizon's "continuing efforts to shrink the ranks of its unionized workforce through subcontracting and outsourcing of jobs, including overseas."rn5. Verizon's "suppression" of the right to organize at Verizon Business, where a majority of technicians in the Northeast have signed union cards indicating they want to join CWA and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.