| Hope that FP makes it FairPoint also got very stuck with the union as part of the deal. They are literally sucking the life out of the company. Ever see these guys work? IMHO, nobody can afford to pay the ridiculous cost of keeping these unions afloat. |
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FairPoint also got very stuck with the union as part of the deal. They are literally sucking the life out of the company. Ever see these guys work? IMHO, nobody can afford to pay the ridiculous cost of keeping these unions afloat.
How did I know that the unions would get brought in to this discussion. How do the unions have anything to do with the screwed up billing and the thousands of service requests that are stuck in Fairpoints computer systems? How do they have anything at all to do with the fact that due to these problems Fairpoint is struggling with customer retention?  |
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 SteveConIBEW 2222 Boston, MAPremium
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Boston, MA | Of course, unions are responsible for all that is bad in the US. Poor economy, low employment levels, little health insurance - you name it!
Let's all put all our trust in "Corporate America" - these guys only want to do what is best for their employees - you know; like promoting a strong economy by employing US residents at decent wages, providing paid health insurance and the like... they're not interested in an annual compensation packages that are worth more than any one person near the bottom of their company's pay scale could make in hundreds or even a thousand years.
If you're not p!ssed off - you're not paying attention.
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UNIONS: The anti-theft device for working people. |
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said by Watcher_NNE :
IMHO, nobody can afford to pay the ridiculous cost of keeping these unions afloat.
FairPoint has not increased wages of union workers. I fail to see how union contract factors into current problem since that ought to have been factored into their financial analysis prior to the sale.
I always find it curious workers get demonized for negotiating favorable contracts and yet when management runs a company into the ground and still walks away with big bucks everyone just shrugs and says oh well that's the way Capitalism works.
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 xdeadhead220, 221, Whatever It Takes.Premium
join:2000-11-08
Mechanicsburg, PA
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to watcher nne...
ok i let the other guy slide coz i thot better of it...but you sir, are an idiot. easily the most ignorant post made in this thread. |
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Way off topic but one word Tom.
Pensions. Virtually no one outside of Government and Unions receives them.
Forget the fat cats. There are so few of them compared to the rank and file.
Pensions are bankrupting this Nation.
They killed manufacturing (UAW) and are the main reason every big city and state have their hand out to Obama. |
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