Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Company says it plans to cut 'carbon intensity' in half by 2020.
Verizon announced on Tuesday that it will invest $100 million in a solar and fuel-cell energy project that will help power 19 of its facilities in seven states, including the Verizon Center facility off North Maple Avenue in Basking Ridge. When completed next year, the project will enable Verizon to annually generate more than 70 million kilowatt hours of its own green energy, which the company noted is enough to power more than 6,000 single-family homes a year, while eliminating more than 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, said an announcement from the company. That is enough to offset the annual CO2 emissions from more than one million gallons of gas. Verizon spokesman Lee Gierczynski on Wednesday said that plans are being finalized …
Monday, April 1, 2013
Volunteers from Verizon in Basking Ridge bussed down to pitch in to help repair elementary school in Seaside Heights.
Nearly 160 Verizon employees from Basking Ridge spent most of last Thursday, March 28, volunteering time to help restore the Hugh J. Boyd Jr. Elementary School in Seaside Heights at the Jersey Shore and get it ready to welcome students back in the fall. The majority of these Verizon employees, from the Verizon Leadership Development Program (VLDP), along with senior leaders from Verizon, painted classrooms, weeded and planted flowers, built new picnic tables and benches, and more as part of a day of volunteer work at the school organized by Jersey Cares. “Hurricane Sandy affected everyone in New Jersey in some way, and this project gives our employees a great chance to contribute their time to getting this school back into shape,” said …
Monday, March 18, 2013
Final winners will work with Verizon and MIT to turn their app concept into reality.
Earlier on Monday, the Verizon Foundation, based in Basking Ridge, announced Monday that the student team from Jefferson Township Middle School in Oak Ridge, Jefferson, was one of 10 schools selected nationwide as a winner of the Verizon Innovative App Challenge. Verizon in Basking Ridge already had hosted a live webinar earlier this month inviting two finalist schools from each state and Washington, D.C. to ask professionals about applications development and careers in science and technology. The Jefferson students’ winning app concept is called Invase Erase, which identifies invasive species that attaché the environment and provides solutions to minimize and/or contain them. More than 470 student teams from across the country submitted…
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Winners will work with professionals to turn apps into reality; part of way to encourage science, technology and math education.
After considering 457 concepts for "apps" submitted by high school and middle school students nationwide, the Verizon Foundation selected "Best in State" winners invited to a live webinar. Those finalists will be narrowed down to 10 student teams who will work with professionals from Verizon and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to turn their ideas into reality. Next Monday, March 18, Verizon will announce the final winners of the Verizon Innovative App Challenge, said Verizon spokeswoman Ellen Yu. The app concepts were supposed to be aimed at coming up with a solution to solve a social issue in the community or in a school system, she said. This past week, a live webinar was put together at a studio at Verizon's Basking Ridge location…
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Virginia P. Ruesterholz retired last year from Verizon's Basking Ridge location.
Basking Ridge resident Virginia P. Ruesterholz, a longtime executive at Verizon and a 1983 graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology, has been elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of her alma mater in Hoboken. Ruesterholz will be the first woman to hold the position of board chairman at the 143-year old institution. Her term will begin in May, and her appointment was announced on Thursday by Stevens. Ruesterholz, who retired last year from a position of executive vice president of Communications based at Verizon's Basking Ridge location, is a lifelong New Jersey resident and 1983 graduate of Stevens. She has served on the board since 2007 and currently is vice chair. “Now more than ever, the world is calling on innovators and …
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Company, with major corporate center in Basking Ridge, said it investe $627 million in NJ wireline networks and information technology in 2012.
Verizon has announced that the company invested more than $627 million in its New Jersey wireline networks and information technology infrastructure in 2012 to enable Verizon networks to continue to meet the state's growing broadband, communications and information needs. “The economic health of New Jersey is increasingly tied to robust and modern communications networks, and Verizon’s continued infrastructure investments ensure that New Jersey stays at the front of the line in state-of-the-art communications for both consumers and businesses,” said Paul Sullivan, Verizon region president of consumer and mass business for New Jersey. “Advanced networks spur innovation, commerce, business development, learning and communication at an …
Monday, January 7, 2013
Henry Shiembob has volunteered for organization since 2005.
Henry Shiembob, deputy Chief Strategy Officer and executive director of cyber security and fraud operaton for Verizon in Basking Ridge, has been elected as board chairman for the National Children's Alliance for 2013. The National Children’s Alliance welcomed seven new members to the organization’s Executive Committee of the Board on Jan. 1, including Shiembob as chairman, according to an announcement from the alliance. Shiembob has been a volunteer with National Children’s Alliance since 2005, and served on the National Children’s Alliance board of directors since 2008, the alliance said. Shiembob previously held the position of treasurer for the board, and will hold the chairman's position through 2013. The National Children’s Alliance…
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Friday, October 19, 2012
More than a year of negotiations lead to ratification vote for agreement.
Verizon unions representing about 43,000 union wireline and communications workers in the East, including more than 5,000 in the New Jersey local of the IBEW, ratified a contract agreement Friday afternoon to end more than a year of contentious negotiations that had led to a strike in August 2011. The labor dispute played out also with more than a year of demonstrations in Basking Ridge and elsewhere. The agreement calls for raises of between 2.25 percent to 3 percent over the next three years, but requires union members to begin contributing to their health care plans, according to information from the IBEW. But key is that the members were able to keep their own health plans, rather than being required to accept Verizon's version of a …
Monday, September 3, 2012
Negotiations moved to undisclosed location in New York.
Five weeks of "intensive negotiations" between Verizon and two unions representing thousands of employees in the Northeast, including the IBEW and CWA in New Jersey, have led to progress on a number of issues, a federal mediator said in a statement on Friday. However, "a number of issues remain to resolved," according to the statement by Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George H. Cohen. The statement said the both parties, in discussions regarding a new contract to replace one that expired in August 2011, will continue to meet to resolve those final issues. The meeting place is said to be an undisclosed location in New York. Cohen's statement was passed along by William Huber, president and business manager of IBEW Local…
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
'Significant key issues remain on the table,' union president said.
A federal mediator has extended contract talks between unions and Verizon, where union demonstrators have repeatedly demonstrated by the Basking Ridge headquarters, beyond Wednesday's deadline by with some reported progress. "We are here this week. [in Washington, D.C.] We are still talking," said William Huber, president and business manager of IBEW Local 827, which represents about 5,600 wireline workers in New Jersey. The latest document extends the negotiating process for another week until 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, Huber said. The unions and Verizon are in talks regarding a contract that expired on Aug. 6, 2011, leading to a strike last August by about 45,000 wireline and communications center workers in multiple states. The unions …
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