About 70 Verizon workers, members of Local UBEW 2323, picketed the communications company’s retail location on Bald Hill Road sunday morning, protesting a contract stalemate since Aug. 1 they worry will open their jobs to overseas outsourcing.
About 25 demonstrators chanted and marched through the drive-through at Wendy’s at 771 Warwick Ave. during lunch today, part of a multi-national campaign calling for higher wages and union organization for fast food workers.