In a huge win for Verizon Wireless workers, retail store workers at six Verizon Wireless stores in Brooklyn, N.Y., voted for a union voice and representation by CWA Local 1109.
With a June deadline looming, Verizon is far from wiring New York City for fiber, and now the company is blaming city landlords for blocking installations.
According to NY AG Eric Schneiderman, for the past seven years, Sprint had knowingly underpaid $130 million of its state taxes. If convicted, though, Sprint would owe $300 million under the False Claims Act.
As New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio had often complained that Verizon?s FiOS broadband service was underbuilt and overpriced. Now he's mayor and he's still saying it.
Fifty-nine members of the New York State Assembly sent a letter to the state?s Public Service Commission (PSC), urging that the PSC "... order Verizon to immediately cease attempts to pressure customers to adopt its Voice Link service.?