Verizon Tells Striking Workers It Plans to Suspend Benefits
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Verizon Communications Inc. told 45,000 striking workers that it will suspend certain benefits at the end of the month if they haven’t returned to their jobs, a move that a union official called a “scare” tactic.
Workers at two unions that have called strikes will lose basic health-insurance, dental, vision and prescription-drug benefits, said Richard Young, a spokesman for the New York-based telephone company. Verizon stopped funding the workers’ pensions when their former contract expired Aug. 6.