Verizon Communication’s two major unions -- with 1,000 employees in the Capital Region -- began striking at 6 a.m. April 13, and workers are picketing daily at the Verizon store in Fairview Ave. in Greenport. The Communications Workers Association 1120 from Kingston and Catskill are picketing there, asking motorists to honk in support. For local consumers, the union claims Verizon has, "failed to build out FiOS in western Massachusetts, virtually all upstate New York cities, and many towns in Pennsylvania," while Verizon has denies that it hasn't lived up to FiOS construction agreements. There are 39,000 union members currently on strike. The last Verizon strike, in 2011, lasted two weeks.