After over two weeks of strikes, Verizon employees have allegedly began resorting to criminal acts such as damaging equipment, vandalizing, and cutting the company’s fiber-optic wires. 36,000 Verizon employees are currently in their 15th day of strike activities, the largest strike the United States has seen since the the communications company’s workers protested in 2011. The strikers are fighting Verizon’s use of hiring independent contractors as well as the company relocating jobs to Mexico. Verizon is offering a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators.
See "Verizon: Sabotage incidents soar as workers strike", Matt Egan, CNN Money, April 28, 2016