45K Verizon Workers Strike Over New Contract

Forty-five thousand unionized Verizon Communications Inc. workers from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., went on strike Sunday after negotiations with the telecommunications company over a new labor contract fizzled. (Aug. 7)

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[supportthejerseymob]

GLAD THEY ARE TAKING A STAND ON ELITIST CORPORATE GREED, GOOD LUCK GUYS.

[robpac2058]

If only verizon spent more time caring about their customers and their employees than makin their employees miserable and their customers stuck in a recording when they call. There wouldnt be any strike. Btw dont believe everything you hear in the media they exaggerate everything. Heck if what kdka said today is true? I would have a 100k salary and pay 100 bucks for healthcare! And a flying pink elephant

[rexbreed]

This is so dumb! The union boss said to practically attack people who were working who weren't in the union. It's awful he said to scream and torture them! That's just completely and totally wrong!

[TonyCiel]

Low life trash in the streets. If they were so smart and better than anyone else why dont they start their own business? Why suck off the ideas of others then demand top end pay for a shitty job they are doing running verizon into the ground. Unions are nothing but bitter drunks, dopeheads and lazy people demanding they do no work for high wages.

[hajqbvii]

27 billions in profits????.....Easy to see why there's a 'Class Warfare' in american politics.

[ScottSiravo]

I have Verizon but I now wanna switch because I now relize that they suck they don't care about theyre users!!

[robpac2058]

Workers want a fair contract. Verizon walked away from the table. They wanted us to strike. Verizon wants to get rid of 35mi. Transfer rule. Stress leter(eliminate forced ot rules) to force workers to work ot no matter how many hrs they put in in the week.(theres a reason why verizon workers have a high percentage of divorce rates. Lets not forget verizon forced 45 families to transfer 450 mi from home only to ask them exactly a year later to volunteer to move back on their own dime.

[robpac2058]

Huh!! Legacy service? They never mention that wireline handles all fios services. As for the declining landline phones? What they dont tell you is how many of these "declining" numbers have been switched over to fios service. Verizin went from 30-70 bucks per customer per month to 100-300 per customer thanks to fios. Fios is wireline! Show me those profits. Smoke and mirrors. And lets not forget wireless was built on "legacy landlines"...

[toyotabedzrock]

They install Fiber too, that is not an end of life business.



And millions still depend on phone and DSL lines.

[thisisnotanick]

@MastaBlasta22 Yes that is almost exactly what I said. They view human beings as products, and the phrase "You're only as good as the work you do" illustrates that perfectly.

No I haven't missed the news. My point was that you already spend more money then necessary on healthcare. If you start treating people like humans and not products, maybe you dont have to spend so much money on healthcare.

Debt and the Military Industrial Complex built America, and not very well. Read history.

[MastaBlasta22]

@thisisnotanick "Coporations treat employess like consumer products, where they throw you away if you STOP WORKING" Did you just say that? You're only as good as the work you do. Thats what BUILT America. If you don't work, you should be fired, or at least put on an action plan...which is what corporations do! As for the US affording healthcare for the entire country, we can only do it if we cut spending. Have you been in a black hole and missed the news and the fact our country is BROKE?