Comcast Workers Demand a Voice At Work

Comcast "The Wal-Mart" of the communications industry has been telling their employees to get as much info. as possible about the union. Yet when the IBEW showed up to give them that info. Comcast security removed the flyers and called the police.

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[kfirefly44]

I think this is ridiculous. If they want to be in the union, THEY'LL CALL!!!! My boyfriend works for Comcast and loves it. He is eligible for promotion every few months and is well supported by his superiors. The fact that you people stalk them when they leave is ridiculous. You do this at just about every meeting and you've gotten no where! GIVE UP! If they want to join they will!!!!

[pyrochief]

Please only comment when you know what you are talking about. Eligible for promotion every few months? What is his title then?

Comcast technicians have started this organizing drive and will be responsible for its success, not the IBEW.

Firefly, where does your "boyfriend" work?

Again, feel free to leave comments about this very important issue to a lot of good people, only when you know what the HELL it is you are talking about.

[thecomcasticavenger]

I've seen the IBEW inside of our shops. The guys had their own table and we had the opportunity to ask all the questions we wanted. Why don't you try that instead of trying to trick us with a bunch of made-up slander?

[pyrochief]

Is that an official Comcast invitation?

The IBEW and its members would be more than happy to be invited into your shops where we could answer questions of Comcast technicians. Even more so if you are willing to invite us to your "shop" and guarantee that managers will not be looking over the events and using against workers.

Let me know avenger if this is an official invite...

[ashonpar3]

I love working for comcast I was ask to go to a union shop to help out.In the non-union shop I am a all round technician i did everything.In the union shop u can see the barriers the union Mentality put up just on the little of job task.The employes dont really care of the customer just what the union can get for them thats why I am in this shop now to help the customer ,,,no politics.

[ashonpar3]

I love working for COMCAST and I was ask to move to a union shop and I can tell you i can see the difference the union mentality holds themselves back.where I was getting 4-5% raise every year based on good work I did,and now I am lock in to 2% raise from collecting bargaining

[whitelitning75]

@yortnoraa Yeah the have to grant access... but we have to give notice.

[Kreggsy6]

I currently work inhouse for comcast and must say that they don't give a rats ass about there employees, it's all about what's best for the "company" a.k.a CEO's, they constantly make up different things we have to do that are "more efficient" a.k.a "lest cost" to the company. I tend to speak up at our weekly meetings and this yearly review I got marked down as bantering frequently in meetings which will affect my annual raise!! LOL!!!! The care ratio is about..employees..35%...CEO's.­..65%!!!

[kong563]

no i was inhouse

[kong563]

Comcast does horrible things to its workers

[DJohn96]

Comcast Corp. says that profit leaped 53 percent in the second quarter 2009 even though the recession and competition squeezed its cable TV and Internet businesses.

Second-quarter revenue at the Philadelphia giant rose 4.5 percent to $8.9 billion, compared with $8.6 billion a year earlier.

Yet, they felt the NEED to cut our benefits and 401K?

[DJohn96]

Comcast Corp. spent nearly $3.3 million in the second quarter to lobby Congress on executive pay. Comcast lobbied against the Excessive Pay Capped Deduction Act of 2009, a bill that would stop tax deductions on excessive compensation given to any employee. Excessive pay is defined as any amount above 100 times the average employee's compensation at the company.

Average Comcast employee = $34,000/yr

Last year, Brian Roberts CEO received $24.7M as calculated by the Associated Press.

[DJohn96]

Well let's see, Comcast employees got a letter from Comcast this week stating to be ready for "Your Benefit Plan for 2010". Comcast paying less of a percentage of our Healthcare premiums, Premiums are going up, co-pays are going up, 401k match going DOWN. The letter does not go into detail about the net dollar amounts, but they have never sent a letter to "prepare" ourselves for the usual yearly increases in costs that we get every year.

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