Capping current pension plans = "generous"

Increasing the costs of health insurance = "affordable"

Outsourcing American jobs = what? Patriotic?

WRONG ! My ass !

This WON'T be their 'final offer'. Here's how it plays out (from a retired CenturyTel/CenturyLink employee)

What you have now, is a bunch of misfits, most of them with LITTLE OR NO TRAINING in telephone work, doing the jobs now. Sooner or later (probably sooner than later), those repair & service orders, are going to get backlogged. In some states (mine is one of them), you have 3 business days to complete a service order, and 24 hours (Monday-Friday) for a trouble ticket. With these misfits, they won't meet those deadlines, and people are going to start complaining to the state regulatory entity (pick a state). When the state's get a "belly full", they'll start leaning on Verizon to start clearing their tickets, or face fines...fines that Verizon aren't in the mood to pay, not to mention the PR backlash they'll face.

Both sides WILL find some "middle ground" to save face. Both sides will "claim victory", and all will be well.

Until the next strike, when this will start all over again, just as it did last time, and the time before that.

And before you ask the "burning question(s)", Verizon SAYS they have even accountants & lawyers doing the work now. How many lawyers and/or accountants are trained in telephone work ?

This will be resolved in a few weeks. Count on it. Its happened before.

And it WILL happen again.

Why should i hand out my data/credit or bank account to somebody half the world away so that they can't do anything except refer-me to the last remaining American worker thats over worked because they have no help..NO THANKS!!! This practice is never welcome or has improved any American company in the end. Look I get it people in other countries should get work give them the night shift since you know they will be awake in their country, but laying off people in the States that know whats going on is not easy or practical.

Verizon has made BILLIONS in NET PROFIT the last two decades, even more so the last five years. They're no longer content with defrauding taxpayers for subsidies and tax breaks for broken promises, but now want to steal from their own. Corporate gluttony at its absolute fucking worst. I hope the CWA takes them to the cleaners when this is said and done.

"....the CWA says Verizon executives have "refused to back off of callous proposals that would hurt working families......"

The union workers see the huge salaries Verizon executives get and watch the quarterly profit reports, and they rightly want their share. But do they think Verizon will just cut executive pay to fund this? No. It will be the working families who happen to get their phone, Internet, or TV through Verizon who pay for that 7.5 % raise over the next three years, and that's before the TV networks add more price increase insults on top of it?