Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers walked off the job on Wednesday in one of the largest U.S. strikes in recent years after contract talks hit an impasse.
Verizon and the two workers unions that staged the strike have been talking since last June over the company's plans to cut health care and pension-related benefits over a three-year period.
The workers have been without a contract since its agreement expired in August 2015.
Issues include health care, offshoring call center jobs, temporary job relocations and pensions.
The strike could affect service in Verizon's Fios Internet, telephone and TV services businesses across several U.S. East Coast states, including New York, Massachusetts and Virginia.
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