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Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers walked off the job in a strike that could impact the company's Fios Internet, telephone, and TV services. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers walked off the job in a strike that could impact the company's Fios Internet, telephone, and TV services. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Images of New York Times employees holding a one-day strike outside the company's offices in Manhattan in the first industrial action of its kind at the newspaper in more than 40 years. Journalists and other workers at the storied media outlet, often referred to as America's paper of record, walked out at midnight for 24 hours after failing to reach an agreement with the company on a new round of contract negotiations. IMAGES
Nearly 40,000 wireline employees of Verizon Communications are on strike after failing to reach an agreement with management on a new labor contract. Jillian Kitchener reports.
"We were outraged to learn of an IDF (Israel Defense Forces, ed) strike that killed a number of civilian humanitarian workers yesterday from the World Central Kitchen," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters during a briefing at the White House. SOUNDBITE