Delaware State Police say Verizon can no longer store its vehicles at its Troop 2 barracks in Glasgow, as the phone company has done for the first two days of a strike the company claims has gotten messy.

Representatives of Verizon and the Communications Workers of America labor union were in Chancery Court on Wednesday to discuss the company’s allegations that striking union members were disrupting business. The company was asking the court to impose limitations on the workers’ ability to demonstrate at Verizon facilities.

Even before the strike began with a contract expiration at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, Verizon had taken steps to secure two service vans and two bucket trucks by seeking protective space at the Troop 2 property on U.S. 40.

State police Sgt. Paul Shavack said Verizon got in touch before the strike to discuss storing some of its vehicles there to make sure the company could respond to emergencies. Shavack said the police agency has agreed to such an arrangement in the past and did so again.

There hasn’t actually been a Verizon strike for 11 years.

Jim Hummell, president of Communications Workers of America Local 13101, said Wednesday he received a tip that Verizon vehicles were stashed at the state police’s Troop 2 barracks and went to check it out late Tuesday night.

He said he spotted between six and eight Verizon vehicles in a public parking lot there before a trooper spotted him and asked him to leave.

Hummell said he didn’t understand why police would allow Verizon to do that, and that it appeared the police were taking sides. Verizon is free to hire its own security, he said.

“It’s just a flat-out insult,” he said.

Shavack said that after the union complained, state police executive staff discussed the matter and decided that Verizon should no longer keep the vehicles on police property.

“We’re aware of the perception,” Shavack said.

The vehicles were out doing service work during the day, and police informed Verizon not to bring them back at the end of the day, Shavack said.

Verizon spokesman Lee Gierczynski did not have anything to say on that topic.

Meanwhile, Verizon attorneys were in Chancery Court on Wednesday seeking an injunction against striking workers, who they said were behaving badly.

The filing, submitted on Tuesday, alleges striking workers blocked entrances to company facilities in Newark and Dover, and used acrylic glue on fence mechanisms and truck locks in Newark.

The company is seeking a court injunction to stop what it called obstructive and harassing behavior.

The company is requesting the court ban the strikers from picketing in groups of four or more at any one location, picketing any closer than 50 feet from an entrance and picketing any closer than 100 feet from the home of a Verizon executive.

A filing in response, by CWA Local 13100 President Diana Markowski, said whatever instructions come from a judge will be passed along to its membership. The union has instructed its members to obey the law.

“High-level” negotiations between the parties continue on a new contract.

Original article by DelawareOnline.com

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