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More than 34,000 Verizon workers will get higher wages and better retirement benefits. Talks with the company went well, union leaders said.
By Eric Kiefer
More than 34,000 Verizon workers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions - including thousands in New Jersey - will get higher wages and better retirement benefits as part of a new, four-year contract, union leaders recently announced.
And this time, it didn't take a gargantuan strike to get things done.
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