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Verizon plans $300 million fiber network for Boston

BOSTON – Ending nearly a decade of giving Boston the cold shoulder, Verizon Communications said Tuesday it will invest as much as $300 million to install the fiber-optic cables needed to offer its FiOS communications services to city residents, businesses and other institutions. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh hailed the agreement, saying

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Verizon reaches deal with striking unions, Labor officials say

NEW YORK (AP) — Striking Verizon employees may be back to work next week after the company and its unions reached an agreement in principle for a four-year contract. About 39,000 landline and cable employees in nine eastern states and the District of.Columbia struck the telephone and cable-television service

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Unions picketing hotels in Verizon strike prompt court move

BOSTON – The National Labor Relations Board on Monday sought a temporary restraining order against several labor unions which it said are orchestrating a campaign to harass area hotels currently housing out-of-town Verizon strikebreakers. About 39,000 union workers walked off their Verizon jobs in mid-April after a series of failed