CWA Spokesperson Robert Master & Verizon Employee Pamela Galpern Discuss the Verizon Strike

[questioningdisciple]

The big banks and the global corporations are sitting on trillions. If people would stand up and say no like CWA we might be able to save this country.

[libertylovingyankee]

It's still hard to believe: A disgustingly wealthy corportation, whose top executives live in palaces fit for kings, demanding working stiffs give up their old age pensions and health care benefits. How stomach turning.

[stjohnslandforme]

picketers- If you really wanted to help, you would do more to inform the public... ooo wait a sec. all you wanna do is yell at scabs or customers or anybody who happens to pass by?. You cant forget, between brothers and sisters, respect is given where it is deserved. Remembered when its abused.

[stjohnslandforme]

assholes, unions only care about getting their ends. Not creating jobs!

[questioningdisciple]

@stjohnslandforme We have a good deal because we are willing to fight for it! Are you being paid by the company? Maybe the rest of you should be given the deal we have. You all have been fooled into being paid less and less every year. Welcome to the American corporate fascist slave state because no one stood up and said no.

[stjohnslandforme]

@questioningdisciple this strike has really shown how divided we are as a working class. ignorance is bliss, until she comes knocking at the door. i dont care what you do, as long as you behave like adults. Take responsibility for youre own and start showing some respect for the non-verizon, non- union workers out there.

[eagleblackbelt]

@stjohnslandforme I totally agree. My father is a non-union worker and he is being harassed by union workers. Now we are hearing about verizon vans are being shot at with BB guns and one man has been shot... Plus phone and internet wires are being cut to like hospitals, ATM's, banks, and police stations. This violence is completely unecessary and the people doing this have no right to. Protest as much as you want but violence wrong.

[Jrod98479]

Thank you @jimmycastor total agreement

[ncrdisabled]

I can not believe that the guy said toif we win then every body should speak up for there job if that happens there will not be very much unemployment as all those not backed by one of the strong unions even with one most of the time Bang out the door you go . Once that happens poof many job opening and the company saves a shit load on pay and benefits. All non union jobs can fire you if they do not like your smile.

[AppInventorCode]

Scab song "You know there ain't no rest for the wicked Money don't grow on trees We got bills to pay, we got mouths to feed There ain't nothin' in this world for free" Union Song "Oh, today I don't feel like doing anything I just wanna lay in my bed Don't feel like picking up my phone, so leave a message at the tone 'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything Nothing at all"

[11KnightHawk]

@jimmycastor I'm pretty sick and tired of hearing this crap about your stupid strike being about you being martyrs for the greater good of the middle class. You don't really believe that, do you? If the middle class is "racing to the bottom", it's because we have 9.1% unemployment and millions out of work. Yet, the CWA and IBEW has thousands walking off from great paying jobs. I don't think you will get much sympathy from the public.

[vern8967]

Guess the scabs don't know that the union will take all the money they make during the strike if They didn't quite the union 30 days before the strike. Check the facts scab! You are working for free buddy! Jokes on you!

[easyc84]

@wraithcobra Your a scab and don't think for a minute that if you were not union you would not have been out the door , as soon as they had the opportunity to do so . Don't kid your self dummy ,guess what if we fail it will affect your pay and benefits too.What your doing doesn't make sense you are enabling them to screw you dummy!!!

[libertylovingyankee]

A lavishly wealthy corporation whose top executives make multi-millions and live in grand mansions fit for kings demanding that working class stiffs give up their pensions and health care benefits- what colossal GALL!!! How terribly disgusting. 

[67olliex]

@wraithcobra

Its not all about YOU ... Its about US the collective group

[supamo1]

former Verizon CWA memeber here now working in the real world and all i can say is the union has these folks fooled. I was making 60k a year to sit at a desk and answer the phone and click on a computer all day. Where else can u get a job doing that paying that kind of money? Nowhere!!!! You can have 20 kids on your health coverage and not pay a dime in premiums. Again nowhere else could that happen. Sorry CWA but you going to have to start paying something in health coverage. If it's $100

[verizontech01]

@wraithcobra WHere are you working so I can help you

[DrewDrums76]

@wraithcobra I'm not sure your being honest here. I do not see how. Can I ask with what company and maybe what position/title ?

And btw I get the impression your a scab . Amirite ?

[11KnightHawk]

@jslam7 Wireline profits up 57%????? What's your source for this unbelievable lie? Don't want to work in the heat or the cold? Quit, then. For every whiner like yourself there are 20 people who'd love to have your job.

[keilya1969]

@11KnightHawk That's what the slave masters said!

[11KnightHawk]

@keilya1969 LOL - You're comparing yourself walking off a high-paying job for your own greediness to slavery??? Gimme a break!!! And, you have just insulted every African American.

[DrewDrums76]

@wraithcobra So you were forced under the union and then lost your benefits ? Are you trying to blame the union for your loss of benefits ? Wasn't it the company that took them from you ?

So you don't need a union to get the benefits you want ? LOLOL idiot Proud of yourself you stupid fucking scab ?

Your not a cobra, your a teabagger. The difference between the two is a cobra strikes when provoked...while a teabagger just bites itself in the ass.

[questioningdisciple]

Attention all union haters: Labor unions are the tip of the spear in the fight for the American worker. If we lose, they will come after you next.

[11KnightHawk]

@questioningdisciple Unfortunately, you are shoving the tip of the spear up your own ass. You're not fighting for the American worker. You're fighting for your own greed.

[EuphoricBloodLust]

@questioningdisciple Right, but if the demands of the union mean that the employer has to sack one out of every five of it's workers to accomodate those demands take a guess who'll be first to go :)

[questioningdisciple]

The wireless network depends on the wireline network! A wireless call will not go anywhere without the wireline! Wireless tower sites are fed with fiber optics and copper cable. I am a Central Office Technician with Verizon. I maintain the wire line circuits that feed the wireless tower sites.

[11KnightHawk]

@questioningdisciple Very little maintenance involved unless there is a fiber cut.

[therealh8er]

JUST TO BE CLEAR MY FIRST CHILD WAS BORN IN 2009. IN 2010 THEY CHANGED OUR BENEFITS AND NOW WE ARE STARTING TO SEE THE RIDICULOUS COST THAT HAS BEEN PAST ON TO US WHEN WE WERE ALREADY PAYING OUR FAIR SHARE OF OUR MEDICAL AND CONTRIBUTING TO 401K'S. WAKE UP AMERICA OR LEAVE! IF WE LOSE THE MIDDLE CLASS LOSES!

[therealh8er]

THE UNION VERIZON WIRELESS WORKERS WHICH I AM ONE OF PAY FOR OUR BENEFITS AND HAVE NO PENSIONS. THEY HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED WHAT WE CONTRIBUTE FOR OUR MEDICAL WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY DROPPING THE AMOUNT COVERED IN THE LAST YEAR. MY WIFE WILL HAVE MY SECOND CHILD IN NOV. AND IT WILL COST ME 30X WHAT MY FIRST CHILD COST ME OUT OF POCKET. THIS WHILE THEY MAKE BILLIONS IN PROFIT AND SQUEEZE ME MORE AND MORE! IF THATS SOUNDS FAIR TO YOU THEN YOUR A TOTALLY USELESS HUMAN BEING!

[therealh8er]

Verizon corporation is doing a hell of a job hiding the fact that THERE ARE UNION EMPLOYEES WORKING FOR VERIZON WIRELESS. IF YOUR NOT AN EXECUTIVE MAKING MILLIONS YOU SHOULD BE SUPPORTING THOSE OF US STRIKING! THEN AGAIN LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE YOU CAN JUST SIT BACK AND WATCH WORKING CLASS PEOPLE FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES WHILE YOU KEEP YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND!

[therealh8er]

I signed up just tom comment to all you anti-union jerkoffs! i am a union worker who works for VERIZON WIRELESS and i pay a good amount of my medical and have no pension and I am still on strike. You nitwits dont realize this is an attack on the middle class from a company scheduled to make $13Billion in PROFIT and paid no taxes last year but got a return in the millions and some that im sure was your Tea Bagger money you uninformed hillbillies! wake up!

[24noneofyourbusiness]

how about what the pickers are doing to their children by making them stand in front of a moving vehicle??????

[gbird1960]

all lies!!!



[SuperBellaJade]

FUCK VERIZON! BOYCOTT COPORATE GREEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[biggerturtle]

@SuperBellaJade FUCK UNIONS FIRE LAZY FREELOADING UNION SCUM

[aztecman10]

@biggerturtle fuck you fucking hill billy idiot,we are fighting for people like you that probably work for peanuts and no benefits,keep watching the fucking fox channel so that you and others like you keep giving the rich more money so they can become richer,and in conclusion ,FUCK YOU

[biggerturtle]

@aztecman10 Fuck you cunt I make more in day than you make in a year HAHAHA

[therealh8er]

@biggerturtle

Im assuming from your really intelligent response above your one of those real heros who steps over homeless vets and says get a job right? your also angry at the world because you spent your youth getting your lunch money robbed and being smacked around because as a kid you were too scared to stick up for yourself then the same way you are now. Theres a word for people like you it starts wit a P and ends with Y.

[SuperBellaJade]

@biggerturtle Do you want to live in a future where all jobs go overseas and corporatations rake in billions but want to cut health care? Ok then..have fun fucking yourself

[gerpierro]

Let's not forget that, but for unions, the American worker (yes, even the non-union folk) would be without paid leave time, a five day work week, and a safe environment to work in.

[mnotto]

Master & Galpern report that a dozen picketers have been hit by VZ management. What they failed to inform the reporter were the number of incidents where picketers purposely & intentionally threw themselves into the path of slow moving vehicles as the vehicles attempted to make their way threw the picket line; all in a feigned attempt to draw negative press.

[gerpierro]

@mnotto Don't believe everything you hear...Slow moving vehicles do not send people to the hospital. It's like the old story "I was cleaning my knife, and the man ran into it, your honor" Then the judge asks, "32 times?"

[11KnightHawk]

@gerpierro Let's see some proof of your ridiculous allegation. I don't buy it.

[ftnhighlights]

@shawnbrennan u r a dick with no balls u no nothing u are the bitch foe opening your pussy ass mouth you horse!!!

[rp961800]

In order to eliminate landlines, they have cutback support (people), cutback budgets to maintain pots and raised rates to reduce landlines, because they want everyone on VOIP or wireless. When pots is eliminated, POW they have us all. They will not be regulated, quality - good luck with that, dependabilty - has been going down, down, down. PAY YOUR BILL & SHUT UP! You think these two powers aren't talking to each other, yea right "SUCKER".

[jay87329]

Keep on striking ! You have my support

[3dimensionalJoe]

go union, fuck those corporate ceos

[niter1cbs]

I AM A UNION WORKER, I am not the problem. Teachers, police officers, paramedics, firefighters, road workers, etc. are NOT the enemy. If you're jealous of our benefits, FIGHT FOR YOUR OWN!, not against ours. The rich who created this crisis are putting middle class families against each other. We live here, pay taxes, work hard & try to support our families too. If you're a union worker, copy & re-educate!!

[shawnbrennan1]

@niter1cbs Wah wah wah...you guys are making yourselves look like whiny bitches, thats really all your doing...keep it up!

[DrewDrums76]

@tea3ali You are a fool. I'm in the union. Work through the contract ? We were ready too, the company never came to the bargaining table. And difficult times ? My CEO made $18.5 in salary alone last year. ONE MAN. Now that sounds like just terrible times to me , wouldn't you agree ? All we are asking for is to remain the same. No wage increases at all. You have no facts just opinions and obviously anti-union ones. So go FUCK yourself idiot.

[biggerturtle]

@DrewDrums76 lazy freeloading scumbag

[DrewDrums76]

@biggerturtle Nice response teabagger. Go vote for another corporate tool who is gonna ship more jobs overseas and continue to undermine the labor laws, wages, safety and standard of living that unions have fought for for almost a century now. When unions win , the working class wins. Keep drinking that Faux news kool aid kid. And for the record, your mom should have just swallowed you.

[biggerturtle]

@DrewDrums76 Unions today are made up of lazy ignorant thugs who want something for nothing. Your day has come and gone HAHAHA

[GALVESTON340]

@biggerturtle .....I am a 33yr GTE/VZ Employee here in Texas and I'll bet you that you couldn't do my job. Perhaps you should look at other areas of the company and how we conduct ourself on the job before you paint us all in the same light. Five plus both installs as well as repairs a day are the norm down here so don't paint all CWA members as "lazy" you jackwagon!

[snowmobilefreak89]

@GALVESTON340 i was a cable tech up in new england and five repairs and instals was a slow day out by noon........

[DrewDrums76]

@biggerturtle Who told you to say these things ? You know, parroting the same old outdated mouth-breathing stereotypes of a unionized workforce ? I'm asking you this because its obvious you cannot think for yourself. Was it beck , hannity, limbaugh . . . . C'mon you can do it. Just put the doritos and the donuts down, wipe your greasy fat fingers and type the name.

[biggerturtle]

@DrewDrums76 No moron I'm an anarchist And I've broken two union strikes I know EXACTLY what I'm talking about

[bklyndude77]

@biggerturtle no you haven't just hide behind your computer and spew vitriol like a teabagger

[24noneofyourbusiness]

@niter1cbs

some people can not go on strike due to it being illegal due to our jobs. I know you are hard workers but so are we and WE pay for our benefits and have no pensions. PAY for your some of your benefits like everyone else!!

[normwho7]

He niter, we do pay into our benefits, we have foregone salary increases as a compromise so we don't have to pay into our benefits. Don't let corporations twist your thinking. YOU DESERVE NOT TO PAY YOUR BENEFITS!! STAND UP AND FIGHT> ITS WHAT OUR FOREFATHERS DID!!!! ITS WHAT OUR COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON. WE DID NOT CAUSE THE FINACIAL MELTDOWN ,THE BANKERS DID. THE GOVERNMENT BAILED THEM OUT AND MAD SAPS LIKE ME AND YOU FIT THE BILL. WE ARE FIGHTING FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU!!!

[niter1cbs]

@24noneofyourbusiness No, it should be the other way around, instead of have the few left in this country give up their benefits, pension and decent wage we should fight to keep them and keep up the fight so that every working man in this country can have them too!! I don't understand this training of thought where one working man would want another to have less while the true enemy (the greedy executives) keep taking more and more and that's OK!?!

[niter1cbs]

@24noneofyourbusiness The wealthiest people in this country (most not all) keep making the working man struggle more and more while they keep raking in billions upon billions of dollars, when will it end, when they have every last ounce of worth on the planet??? Enough is Enough!!!

[11KnightHawk]

@niter1cbs What a pitiful victim statement, but typical of the union mentality. Oh, the evil reach people! Who do you think provides the jobs, poor people? Try getting a job from a poor person and get back to us and tell us how that works out for you! Otherwise, quit your whining and get your over-paid ass back to work.

[JakDerrida]

@11KnightHawk <- Is one of the accounts made by verizon management this week for the sole purpose of harassing videos posted on Youtube by union members. This is further evidence that they hate the working men and women of the company, cannot do our jobs, and will do anything to undermine us. We shall not break!

[niter1cbs]

@11KnightHawk What a pitiful coward statement, but typical of a spineless jellyfish who wont even stand up for his own rights! "Oh the rich people give us jobs so we have to bend over and take it up the ass for them" ...are you kidding me? Your brainwashed to defend the same people that screw you!! BTW, How much are you getting paid to troll youtube and post propaganda and spam for Verizon anyway, you can tell from your account your a fake dumbass!!

[11KnightHawk]

@niter1cbs You are a prime example of EXACTLY what Verizon DOESN'T need in it's workforce. You offer no intellectual argument, and instead resort to useless insults. I'd like to see someone more deserving of your job offered up to the millions out of work who would be happy to have it!

[tonibeau]

49,000 dollars a DAY in compensation to the outgoing CEO?? Glad Verizon is no longer getting my dollars. I'd love to be making 49,000 a YEAR....that's just criminal. The strikers have my support!

[folknhairy]

BRAVO!.. I'll deal with getting access to my email thru g.d. Starbucks.. but Right On to to the strike.