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Workers at six Verizon Wireless stores in Brooklyn,...

Workers at six Verizon Wireless stores in Brooklyn, New York, voted to unionize, the Communications Workers of America said Wednesday. The vote was a “huge victory,” CWA said, given what it called a decade-long effort by Verizon to do “everything…

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possible” to prevent Verizon Wireless store workers from unionizing. CWA contends top Verizon executives were “camping out” at the six Brooklyn stores before the union vote to “inundate the workers with anti-union propaganda.” More than 40,000 Verizon workers are union members, CWA said (http://bit.ly/1gILAKO). Verizon is “disappointed that 39 employees felt this way,” a spokesman said.