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| WHAT A JOKE Would you rather have a well paid union member doing a good job and keeping you in service- or some boob named Juan making $8.50 an hour that doesnt know how to fix anything. Since when is job security a bad thing? The Verizon techs deserve every bit of their salary, benefits, and job security. Last year Verizon ended pensions to anyone with under 15 years of service- for management, do you think they would hesitate for a second to do that to the Union represented technicians if they could? Verizon has made money hand over fist year after year- I dont think the union has anything to do with how the company is doing. How many of you guys would want to be in 20 below 0 weather in the bottom of a manhole? or on a telephone pole a couple of feet away from a powerline in a rainstorm? Techs in the Boston area make $65,000 a year in an area where the average price of a house is $500,000- tell me they are overpaid?- these guys need union representation to keep the greedy bastards in upper management from cutting their wages and benefits just so they can make their multiple million dollar bonuses.
Verizon is cutting off "less profitable" areas- they sold the Super Pages- a few states in the south- Hawaii- and a some interests in Central America. This is just a case of making their stock look good while they push the Fios Network. Is it good for Me, Nh, and Vt--- no it's not. If this thing goes through say bye bye to the possibility of ever getting Fios, or even DSL in some areas, say hello to higher prices- crappy service- and a inability to afford any upgrades on an already aging system. And you are probably right- bye bye Union in the NorthEast. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | said by VERIZON TECH :
Since when is job security a bad thing? It's always been a bad thing. When you believe that all you have to do is show up every day, and you'll get automatic raises, no matter how well or how poorly you do your job; when you believe that you shouldn't bother to really excel at your job, because you won't earn any more than the smuck that shows up hung over every day, when that same-said smuck knows that he's got "job security" and automatic seniority-based raises, then yea, that's a bad thing.
My BIL worked for AT&T back when they were "The Phone Company". He said it was all about coffee runs and dragging things out as much as possible. 'he left because he was more amibitious than some "job security" union shop would let him be. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | The Verizon techs I've met are highly skilled, very hard working, and do a lot more than just show up for the job. |
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It's always been a bad thing. When you believe that all you have to do is show up every day, and you'll get automatic raises, no matter how well or how poorly you do your job; when you believe that you shouldn't bother to really excel at your job
A few years ago Verizon STUPIDLY tried to fire 1000's union workers in the NY area against the contract. Thank god for the unions who brought back every single one of them. They ended up with a 1 year paid vacation.
Ivan Seidenberg and Larry Babbio should have been sent to the guillotine for making such a blunder costing billions of dollars.
Long live CWA. |
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| And nobody paid for that big blunder..
They (management) had the oppurtunity to let those workers keep working until the arbitrator made his ruling, but instead they laid them off anyway resulting in forced OT, temporary transfers of techs to keep up with the workload in some area's (with additional pay for being temp xferred).
They spent more money working people OT to keep up with the work load at the same time they were fighting the union in court saying they didnt need these people.. BTW they wound up HIRING additional people after the recall of laid off workers!!
In the end all those laid off got a FULL PAID VACATION..
Why werent the stockholders screaming about this blunder?
Lay people off who have a CHANCE of being rehired with FULL BACKPAY!!!
Any IDIOT could see that if they lost it would cost them big time |
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