As 45,000 Verizon union workers remain on the picket lines, the company has begun using temporary workers.

YNN's Doug Sampson reports, tempers flared at several Western New York locations Monday, and two picketers were sent to the hospital.

AMHERST, N.Y. — Temporary workers crossed the Verizon picket lines Monday morning in downtown Buffalo.

"They're coming in and they're crossing the line to work,” said Heather Dadswell, a striking Verizon worker. “Supposedly, the company is feeding them and taking good care of them while we're out on the picket line."

The scene was repeated at locations across the northeast U.S., and locally police were called to several locations.

"It's not a good sign. day two, already, people are fired up, people are raring to go, and they're not going to take anything," said Dadswell.

In Amherst, two striking employees were sent to the hospital after a temporary worker pushed through the picket line with his car.

"The picketers are illegal picketing and denying access to driveways and entrances to buildings,” said Verizon spokesman John Bonomo. “So when our managers try to enter those buildings they're trying to be denied access."

"Whether or not people were standing there, they weren't moving, that's all subject to interpretation,” said James Wagner, the president of the CWA Local 1122 Union. “That doesn't make it right for a 2,500 pound weapon and drive through without yielding the right of way."

Investigators say both were treated for minor injuries at Millard Fillmore Hospital and released. Police have not filed charges.

"You can understand what both sides are trying to do,” said Amherst Police Captain Patrick McKenna. “But they're not supposed to be blocking the driveway, and obviously someone who's driving a car isn't supposed to be trying to creep through."

"We're fighting for all working families in this country,” said Wagner. “This fight is to uphold the middle class standard of living. We have the right to be out there in protest to protect our children and protect our families."

"We're ready to be there at any point,” said Bonomo. “We know they're tough decisions. We're a changing business, and that's really the impetus of a lot of the provisions of the contract we want to implement."

Local Union members plan to be on the picket lines Monday through Saturday until the contract is resolved.