Cablevision Employees Unionize For First Time Ever In a Cable Industry Where Just 2-4% Are in Unions Friday Jan 27 2012 09:25 EDT "It’s very hard to retire here," a Cablevision installer complained to the New York Times earlier this month. "You get hurt, you can’t work as hard and you disappear." A little more than a week later, despite claims from unions that Cablevision tried heavy-handedly to stop it, 282 technicians and dispatchers in Brooklyn have voted to join the CWA. The move marks the first time that Cablevision employees have unionized, in a cable sector where just 2% to 4% of cable TV workers are unionized. That's compared to 90% of telecommunications workers, most notably Cablevision's primary competitor, Verizon. Cablevision issued a statement noting disappointment: quote:
"We are disappointed by the outcome of this vote. In the worst economy in memory, Cablevision has not laid off a single technician, unlike our competitors who have cut thousands of unionized positions. In fact, Cablevision has created jobs. We value our employees and the work they do and believe the CWA has little to offer them. We are assessing our options."
Cablevision workers make about one-third less than their counterparts at Verizon, according to the CWA. As we recently noted, there are some on Wall Street who'd like to see Verizon get out of landline entirely in large part because of union costs, instead fully focusing on wireless where labor remains ununionized and therefore pension, health and other costs are reduced. |
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First comes the abuse, then comes the UnionIf you don't want employees to unionize, don't exploit them. | | |
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Why are you all so anti worker (union)?American workers are treated worse then any other first world country worker. We work longer hours, have less time off and generally work in more dangerous conditions. Many of us work weekends and on vacations - and our employers EXPECT us to!
A 40 day week? What a joke THAT is!
Unions try to keep the playing field level. Are they perfect? No, but they do make a difference. My father in law worked 30 years for Ford in Mahwah, NJ. He worked hard for Ford (assigned almost a dozen engine patents to them) and when they closed that plant he would have received almost NOTHING had the union not negotiated a settlement for him and the others affected. Thanks to them, he got to keep the small condo they owned and his wife has a modest pension and decent health insurance in her old age.
What's so bad about that? | | Dodge
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2012-Jan-27 9:32 am
Incoming price increase to all customersin 3...2....1... | |
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