Verizon employees and representatives of two major US unions , including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters , attended the company ’s recent annual shareholder meeting in Orlando to complain about abuse in the workplace and Verizon Wireless ' attempts to avoid unionisation . A spokesperson for Verizon did not return a request for comment from Fast Company, but a rep told the Times last October that it was opening an internal investigation into the claims, adding: “We have no tolerance—zero tolerance—for this sort of alleged behavior.” A former warehouse in Memphis , which processed freight for Verizon and was owned by XPO Logistics , hit the headlines in 2017 after a female worker died of heat exhaustion .
Verizon employees and representatives of two major US unions , including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters , attended the company ’s recent annual shareholder meeting in Orlando to complain about abuse in the workplace and Verizon Wireless ' attempts to avoid unionisation . A former warehouse in Memphis , which processed freight for Verizon and was owned by XPO Logistics , hit the headlines in 2017 after a female worker died of heat exhaustion .