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 provider in April. Members of the Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers had been working without a contract since August.