Union members in New York trail temporary workers to homes; "Why drag our customers into this labor dispute?"
By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS
Jane Clausen got more than she bargained for this week when she asked Verizon Communications Inc. to send someone to her second-floor Brooklyn apartment to fix her Internet.
After opening her door Tuesday for two Verizon workers, Ms. Clausen, a
30-year-old Crown Heights resident, was surprised to see striking workers outside the building.The men sent by the telecom company told her they weren't regular technicians, but part of a replacement workforce tasked to fill in for nearly 40,000 Verizon union workers who went on strike last week. The men told her the strikers had followed their company van to her home.
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