Verizon lays offs 196 in Rhode Island and Massachusetts
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By Andy Smith Verizon Communications Inc. announced layoffs Friday to workers across the country, including Rhode Island and Massachusetts. According to the Web site for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Boston, 196 Verizon employees in Massachusetts and Rhode Island lost their jobs. The union did not specify how many of those workers were Rhode Islanders. Company spokesman Phil Santoro declined to provide say how many Verizon workers were laid off. The company announced in July that it planned to cut 8,000 of its 235,000 jobs in the United States. Santoro said that Verizon tried to minimize layoffs by eliminating jobs through attrition and offering early retirement packages to workers. Santoro said the company "is in the middle of a transition," with its traditional phone business shrinking while wireless communication and Internet services are growing. 
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