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Ex-FBI official Mike Mason, who heads up security at Verizon, is voicing concern about the strike by company workers on the east coast that has resulted in the sabotage at some facilities including a police department and hospital.
“I consider that an unpatriotic act,” Mason, a former executive assistant director of the criminal division at the FBI, told the Associated Press. “These cuts aren’t just affecting a faceless, monolithic company.”
The AP reports that Verizon has discovered 90 acts of sabotage since the strike began last week involving 45,000 landline employees from Massachusetts to D.C. The FBI is involved in the investigating the matter.
An FBI spokesman said the agency is involved in the probe.
“Because critical infrastructure has been affected, namely the telecommunications of both a hospital and a police department, the FBI is looking into this matter from a security standpoint as part of our security efforts leading up to the 9-11 anniversary,” Special Agent Bryan Travers said in an email, according to AP.
Candice Johnson, a union spokeswoman from the Communications Workers of America, said:
“CWA does not condone illegal action of any kind, and instructs its members to conduct all strike activities in accordance with labor law.”
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