About 40,000 unionized Verizon workers walk off the job

By Malathi Nayak NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers walked off the job on Wednesday in one of the largest U.S. strikes in recent years after contract talks hit an impasse, and got a boost as U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders joined them at a Brooklyn rally ahead of the New York primary next week. Front-runner Hillary Clinton, who faces Sanders in the primary on April 19, also voiced support for the strikers and urged Verizon to go back to the bargaining table. T