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Verizons email on Friday about so called bargaining with the unions on an enhanced Eipp offer is a figment of the companys imagination. Verizon does not want to negotiate. Verizon wants to dictate, dangling a carrot of an incentive and mandating that if the unions accepted it the union couldn’t challenge Verizon on any layoffs. Verizon wants to layoff thousands and the company offer would mandate that the union would sit idly by as the company proceeded to unprecedented layoffs even to those protected by job security.

The union will continue to fight for our members jobs and will not sit by and allow Verizon to decimate the members and eliminate jobs.