ALBANY — A raucous group of more than 100 organized Verizon workers picketed outside the telecommunication company’s downtown offices Thursday afternoon, demanding a swift resolution to stalled contract talks.

A strike deadline involving 1,500 Communications Workers of America Local 1118 members in the Capital Region is nearing, with their five-year contract set to expire at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. The talks, which also involve about 150 area Verizon business office workers represented by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2213, are primarily being held up over union objections to management’s growing reliance on non-organized labor.

“We don’t want to lose those jobs,” said Local 1118 President Gil Carey.

Thursday’s picket outside Verizon’s State Street offices, where about 500 CWA members work, is part of negotiations involving dozens of locals and more than 65,000 telecom employees. The last pact the unions and management agreed to came after a two-week strike in 2003.

CWA/IBEW negotiators this year are pushing for a three-year pact, and union members in the Capital Region overwhelmingly passed a strike vote earlier this month.