43,000 strike telecommunications giant Verizon in Northeast US:
43,000 telecommunication workers in the Northeast of the United States went on strike Sunday morning against massive concessions demanded by Verizon including cuts to pensions, wages and health care and the ending of all job security provisions. Ref. Source 5
Verizon is supposed to be stopping their unlimited data plan - that sucks! so I'm not sure that they're going to retain a lot of their customers.