Verizon Strike: Workers Picketing in Cockeysville Wednesday

By MARC TORRENCE, Patch staff

Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers walked off their jobs and onto the picket line Wednesday, marking the largest work stoppage of any U.S. industry in years, which could mean delays of weeks to reconnect many of the company's 140 million customers who lose cable television or their internet connections and even longer waits for new subscribers wanting its FIOS and mobile services.

Striking workers began picketing at 99 Shawan Rd. in Cockeysville at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The Communications Workers of America and the Brotherhood of Electrical Engineers began their strike at 6 a.m., intent on gaining job security from a company raking in billions of dollars in profits a year.

"Extremely on," Rob Master, a CWA spokesman, told Patch Wednesday morning by e-mail. "About 700 on picket line here on West 36th Street" in New York City.

Picket lines and larger demonstrations were planned up and down the Eastern Seaboard, from Massachusetts to Virginia.

See the latest Patch reports on the Verizon strike.

Here are the Maryland picketing locations on Wednesday, listed by the unions at standuptoverizon.com:

• 1820 Forest Dr., Annapolis
• 2815 Druid Park Dr, Baltimore
• 320 St. Paul Street, Baltimore
• 99 Shawan Rd, Cockeysville
• 66223 Crain Hwy, La Plata
• 7807 Fitch Lane, Nottingham
• 5305 Old Court Rd, Randallstown
• 13100 Columbia Pike, Silver Spring
• 6810 Dogwood Rd, Woodlawn

Image: Stand Up to Verizon on Facebook