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5 Things You Need to Know Today, August 9

Salsa, restaurants and more

More of the same: It will be partly sunny today, with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs will be in the upper 70s with a chance of rain at about 50%, increasing to 70% later this evening. Strike!: A number of Verizon Communications employees are on strike, though the company says service should remain uninterrupted until the contract dispute is resolved. Turn this boat around: Councilor At-Large candidate David D'Arcangelo said “an overwhelming majority” of businesses that responded to his campaign's survey found that the city and state were heading in the wrong direction.  Oooh, fancy: Eileen Herman-Haase and Raul Nieves will be giving free salsa lessons from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Malden Public Library tonight. But only until …

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Verizon Employees Strike Outside Main Street Office

Spokesman says the union is protesting onerous demands imposed by management.

Unionized employees from both the Communication Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers began the first day of a strike against Verizon Communications Monday, after what they described as “onerous” conditions were allegedly imposed onto the negotiations by the telecommunications giant. In Malden, about 10 to 15 CWA members stood outside of the Verizon offices on Main Street to picket. Other members followed replacement workers around on their service routes, aiming to picket the workers at each stop on their workday. “You're a loser!” one striker yelled with an accompanying “L” hand gesture as a Verizon truck drove by. Some cheers erupted among the organizers when the car behind it was full of fellow …

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