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 block unionisation. The union has been pushing for a vote on whether workers should be able to form unions at Verizon, which is owned by Comcast.
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 block unionisation. A former facility in Memphis, which processed orders for Verizon and was operated by XPO Logistics, hit the headlines in 2017 after a female worker died of heat exhaustion.