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Verizon Strike: Picketing Locations in Virginia
Workers are seeking job security from the changing telecommunications giant.
By MARC TORRENCE, Patch staff
Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers walked off their jobs and onto the picket line Wednesday, marking the largest work stoppage of any U.S. industry in years, which could mean delays of weeks to reconnect many of the company's 140 million customers who lose cable television or their internet connections and even longer waits for new subscribers wanting its FIOS and mobile services.
The Communications Workers of America and the Brotherhood of Electrical Engineers began their strike at 6 a.m., intent on gaining job security from a company raking in billions of dollars in profits a year.
"Extremely on," Rob Master, a CWA spokesman, told Patch Wednesday morning by e-mail. "About 700 on picket line here on West 36th Street" in New York City.
Picket lines and larger demonstrations were planned up and down the Eastern Seaboard, from Massachusetts to Virginia.
See the latest Patch reports on the Verizon strike.
Here are the Virginia picket locations on Wednesday, listed by the unions at standuptoverizon.com:
- 4242 Duke St, Alexandria
- 6295 Edsall Rd, Alexandria
- 115 S Floyd St, Alexandria
- 7309 Fordson Rd, Alexandria
- 22001 Loudoun County Pkwy, Ashburn
- 25284 Pleasant Vally Rd, Chantilly
- 502 E Piedmont St, Culpeper
- 10421 Fairfax Blvd, Fairfax
- 3175 Draper Dr, Fairfax
- 2935 Gallows Rd, Falls Church
- 500 Carlisle Dr, Herndon
- 319 E Market St, Leesburg
- 501 Tolbert Ln, Leesburg
- 52 Richneck Rd, Newport News
- 200 New Market Fair, Newport News
- 3131 Sewells Point Rd, Norfolk
- 139 Belleview Ave, Orange
- 7720 W Broad St, Richmond
- 225 Franklin Rd, Roanoke
- 404 Hillandale Lane, Winchester
Photo: CWA Local 1101 workers protest outside a Verizon store in New York City on Sunday
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