Read More... People demonstrate outside a Verizon store during a strike in New York, April 18, 2016. (Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton) Verizon workers will be heading back to work on Wednesday after a historic 45-day strike. Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers went on strike on April 13, demanding that the telecommunications giant stop outsourcing unionized jobs, withdraw proposed cuts to benefits and provide all workers with a contract. The two unions representing the company’s workers, the Communication Workers of America, or CWA, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, say some Verizon employees have worked without a contract since August. After the largest strike in recent U.S.