{"id":47680,"date":"2002-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p="},"modified":"2002-12-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-11T00:00:00","slug":"Verizon-considering-350-layoffs-in-Pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=47680","title":{"rendered":"Verizon considering 350 layoffs in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Verizon Communications plans to lay off 350 workers statewide by early next week, said union officials, who blamed the Christmastime cuts on the company\u2019s poor investments in wireless communications and fiber optics.<br \/>\nVincent Maisano, international vice president of the Communications Workers of America, said the layoffs follow cutbacks of 2,600 jobs in Pennsylvania through early retirement and buyout packages.<br \/>\n\u201cThey\u2019re invested in about 20 foreign countries, where they\u2019ve lost billions,\u201d Maisano said. \u201cAnd now they want the employees to pay the price.\u201d<br \/>\nThe layoffs result from Verizon\u2019s losing 20 percent of its telephone business in the past two years, company spokesman Harry Mitchell said. Plans to reduce jobs nationwide by 8,000 positions were announced last summer, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Verizon Communications plans to lay off 350 workers statewide by early next week, said union officials, who blamed the Christmastime cuts on the company\u2019s poor investments in wireless communications and fiber optics. Vincent Maisano, international vice president of the Communications Workers of America, said the layoffs follow cutbacks of 2,600 jobs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}