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Thousands of Verizon Employees Will Return Monday With No New Contract After 14-Day Strike

Verizon Employees Will Return Monday With No New Contract After 14 Day StrikeThousands of striking Verizon workers will return to work starting Monday night, though their contract dispute isn’t over yet.

Both the company and the union say they have agreed to narrow the issues in dispute and have set up a process to negotiate a new contract. But the talks are likely to be contentious. The two sides still disagree on touchy subjects such as health care benefits, pensions, and work rules.

About 45,000 employees went on strike on Aug. 7, after their previous contract expired. They work in the company’s landline division in nine states from Massachusetts to Virginia.

Verizon says that it needs to cut costs in the traditional landline phone business, which is in decline as more Americans switch to mobile phones. The company has proposed freezing its pension and switching union workers to its non-union health plan, which has higher costs for employees.

The unions counter that the landline business supports the growing wireless business and that Verizon, which earned about $3 billion in the first half of the year, can afford to maintain the benefits in the contract that expired on Aug. 6. They also say Verizon put too many proposals on the table.

Of the 45,000 striking workers, 35,000 are covered by the Communications Workers of America, while 10,000 are covered by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Jim Spellane, a spokesman for the IBEW, said the strike occurred because Verizon “came in with an extreme set of proposals and never really moved off of them.”

But after the 14-day strike, “I think they realized the unions are serious,” he said. “It‘s in everybody’s best interest to get back to work.”

Verizon spokesman Richard Young said that many of the benefits and work rules were put in place when Verizon faced much less competition in its landline business. “The contracts are not reflective of today’s marketplace,” he said.

Verizon has 196,000 workers, with 135,000 of those non-union. The wireless division, which wasn’t affected by the strike, is mostly non-union.

Verizon Employees Will Return Monday With No New Contract After 14 Day Strike

Nearly 30 percent of U.S. homes have dropped landline phone service and rely on mobile phones only, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

Verizon Wireless added 1.3 million wireless customers in the April-June quarter, for a total of 89.7 million. That growth has been helped by the addition of Apple Inc.’s iPhone in February. The company owns 55 percent of Verizon Wireless, with Britain’s Vodafone owning the rest.

Meanwhile, total voice connections, which measures FiOS digital voice connections in addition to traditional landlines, declined 7.9 percent to 25 million. But the company has seen increases of more than 20 percent in customers subscribing to both FiOS Internet and TV services over the past 12 months.

Candice Johnson, spokeswoman for the CWA, said Verizon is asking $20,000 per worker in annual concessions. The company has disputed that but hasn’t offered its own figure.

Johnson said earlier this month that the union’s best-paid Verizon workers get about $77,000 a year in New York. The company puts the figure at $91,000 and said benefits average $50,000.

While customers who will now get their FiOS services installed on time may be winners, Verizon’s Thonis said neither the company nor the workers could claim a victory.

“We still have a lot of hard and difficult bargaining to do. None of the major issues that were on the table before the strike, are off the table,” he said.

WBZ Boston on the strike’s end:

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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  • Mplsv1401
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:50pm

    Hey model82…after you get done cleaning that gun of yours and assuming you don’t have an accident. You’d better hide that thing….ole bama is coming for it. Sooner or later it’s gonna happen. That’s what you boys outta be worried about. Instead of hating on union workers.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:56pm

      Wow – I didn’t realize that anyone used landlines anymore! Interesting! Oh, and MPLSV14-1 is right – Obama’s coming for the guns! http://wp.me/pYLB7-1vV

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:58pm

      MPLS, You’re warning the owner of a .50 Cal semi-automatic weapon to prepare to defend himself? I reiterate, you are SHARP.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:05am

      Good. I’m glad to see the Unions were NOT able to bully Verizon. If the Unions had just stayed true to their original purpose… protecting workers rights… instead of getting so deeply involved in politics, they wouldn’t be losing members like crazy. Here’s another perfect example of Marxist dirt-bags ruining something that at one time was a force for good.

      http://www.AllenWestforPresident.us

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:19am

      Unions can organize on the bottom of the ocean for all I care.
      And having rallies on peoples private property might fly in some states but they would have a much different reception in mine. Fear can be used by anyone. Try to remember that late at night.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:42am

      The only thing a union has done for me in my life, is take money out of my paycheck, and ignore me when the company I worked for went out of buisness, because they couldn’t compete with overseas companies. But hey, at least they got me another job, oh wait, they didn’t, in fact they just sent a letter saying, your dues are overdue, please pay them.

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:51am

      @walkwithme1966,
      Your link goes to a site about 9/11 and Iran’s and S. Arabia’s complicity. Something about Bush covering up the link between them. OK. Bush sucked. Obama sucks. What is the connection between your comment and the link? Are you claiming Verizon was also in cahoots with Iran and Saudi Arabia and Bush knew that too? Bastards! I thought so all along!

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    • Orlando Electrician
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 3:20am

      Its amazing how these unions keep asking for more and more and yet on the residendial side people dont make as much money nor do they have the benefits either. My wife doesnt make half as much as i do and yet the union still demands more.

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    • NAVYGUYGRAY
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 3:27am

      ObaMao doesn’t care about guns right. Dang man, him and Holder are running guns into Mexico like gangstas…

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    • 101
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 3:33am

      Employees should opt-out of the Union before they put them in the streets for good

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    • Jesse Tampa, FL
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 4:03am

      Private unions can do what they want! It’s their business, NOT OURS! Public unions are a different matter.

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    • rodamaa
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 5:24am

      Worry about my gun? I am not worried about the union worker, I am worried about the union bosses. And as far as my gun? Well you just try and take it.

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    • chazman
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:14am

      Unions were first controlled by the Mafia. Now they are controlled by communist’s. Either these union members have their heads up their buts, or they are commies. Which is it?

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:06am

      @walkwithme1966

      A few people still do. I have a land line, and 2 cell phones (mine and my husband’s) so we were thinking about dropping the land line. My parents (79 and 71) are going to drop their landline and upgrade their cell phone and get mom a back up go-phone that you put minutes on. It’s becoming a dinosaur and a luxury if you already have a cell.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:23am

      The days of The Big Unions are over .. the time is now.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:25am

      Its not the employees that are hated.

      It is the UNION GREED that is detested.

      You see, when a group of people form a REAL UNION, and ONE OF THE PEOPLE speaks for the rest of the people… FOR FREE… That is a REAL UNION.

      When a group of people PAY an ORGANIZATION to represent them – well, that is just CORRUPTION of CAPITALISM. How? Well, in a REAL UNION, there are TWO parties, and ONLY two parties to a negotiation. They have a common mutual goal of succeeding together, while the labor supplier does not get unfairly treated. The “big evil corporation” seeks to maximize profit for its shareholders. The “REAL UNION” seeks to maximize pay and benefits for its employees. PERIOD.

      However, this is corrupted and bastardized when you add a CORPORATE UNION – a third party, to the negotiations. You see, the UNION has its OWN interests to look out for. The time WAS, when “UNION LABEL” meant “MADE IN AMERICA” – no more. Unions have gone international to assure their OWN survival. Now, the union is NOT just YOUR representative, they are looking out for THEIR best interests first. Then, they also look out for yours, in as much as it does not interfere with THEIR OWN UNION-CORPORATE GREED!
      Now, the “big evil corporation” has TWO parties to negotiate with, and one of them is NOT honest.

      DOWN WITH “UNIONS, INCORPORATED” ! !
      .
      .
      .

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:27am

      Walk with me – While most people think land lines are obsolete, I don‘t and here’s why. In 1988 I was managing a store that had a phone system that was electrical. I guess it would be an early Voice over IP system. The air conditioning unit on the roof caught fire and the electricity went out almost as soon the fire alarms went off. No phones. While I cleared the building, one of my guys literally ran to the fire station a block away. It turns out that our home office got the alarm and they had to call the emergency in , which didn’t happen for another 15 minutes. By the time the fire department was notified, the firefighters had ALREADY put out the blaze.

      Also, you may remember a major northeast blackout about five or so years ago. The cell towers went down. People could not use their cell phones. The regular landlines still worked. So, I’ll be holding on to my land line as long as possible.

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    • DonaldH
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:59am

      Oh really! Obama is coming after my weapons!! Tell MP, is going to sending YOU to come and take them?

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    • michael48
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:10am

      15,000,000 Unemployed….please continue to strike…they can hire MBA‘s and PHD’s in this “oblamo” economy….or his back door “dream act”…he!! , now a flash light can get a “green card” so may as well hire those who Can’t Read a BALLOT…“touchie feelie thingy” ya know…US CITIZEN’s, how’s that view from UNDER THE BUS????…oh BTW he put the screws to ALL, reguardless of SKIN PIGMATATION……keep buying that “snake oil” he’s got an UNLIMITED SUPPLY…

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    • JEANNIEMAC
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:48am

      Union members think they are doing a good thing, marching in their red shirts. Don’t they realize they have been taken over by communist organizers? If they read some history, they would know that red is the color of communism. Fists in the air, marching, slogans, signs, etc. are right out of the communist Saul Alinsky’s playbook.
      Workers of the World- WAKE UP!

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    • mohavegreen
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:27pm

      1401. American Federation of Government Employees Local 1401 at Andrews Airforce Base. Local is not labeled “workers, operators, labors, electricians, painters, plasters”. Labeling members workers or trades persons of any kind would be an oxymoron.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 1:13pm

      I still use a landline! On 9/11 the only way I was able to see if family members were o.k. was by landline! Reconsider permantly switching totally! I keep both. FYI of course!

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    • becker88
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 1:49pm

      Guess unions don’t work…

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • 101
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:14pm

      @ Jesse Tampa, FL

      Communications Workers of America CWA, the largest telecommunications union in the world, represents over 700,000 men and women in both private and public sectors, including over half a million workers who are building the Information Highway. Note: above “private and public”
      And directly affiliated with SEIU & the UAW…so they directly effect all people living in the US

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    • ProgressivesAreEvil
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:18pm

      JEANNIEMAC
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:48am

      Union members think they are doing a good thing, marching in their red shirts. Don’t they realize they have been taken over by communist organizers? If they read some history, they would know that red is the color of communism.

      ==============
      The CWA started wearing red in the 80′s after one of their stewards was run over and killed by a manager in a work truck during a strike. I agree it’s not the greatest choice of colors, but it was not chosen as a connection to communism.

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    • insaneserenity
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 2:41pm

      name a union or a union member that has done anything decent in the past 30 or so years. At this point the unions are a bunch of thugs and don’t deserve to be treated as anything else. Unions need to be destroyed.

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  • Dumpsterjuice
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:48pm

    I try not to buy union or use union services. Why should my money go to union thugs and be funnelled to the democrats.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:00am

      Absolutely. If I find out something has a union label, I look for a competing product. I don’t care if I have to buy foreign made. I don’t want to support Communists.

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    • Dumpsterjuice
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:58am

      I drive a Nissan truck built in Kentucky by real Americans. My next truck will be a Toyota, built in San Antonio Tx.

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    • squeaker
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 3:40am

      Wasn’t there a story not to long ago about Jeeps being built by a bunch of drunk union factory workers..?

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    • Ampleforth
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:30am

      Dumpster:

      I didn’t realize that Nissan had a secret plant in Kentucky. I think your truck was probably made in Smyrna, Tennessee. It would be great if that assembly plant was here, but Tennessee beat us out because it has no income tax and is a right-to-work state.

      I’m not trying to pick on you because I understand your point.

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  • TRILO
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:43pm

    Verizon needs to get rid of these thugs. I have watched these people display their rude and outrageous behavior. The land line business is shrinking,… so should the people servicing it’s operation. In my opinion shut down the land line division and go all wireless/cell. These people should be thankful in an age of 9+% unemployment (16+% unofficial unemployment) to have a job. I am sure there are thousands of people who would gladly take their place.

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    • El Pistoffo
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 2:46am

      The article states that landlines decreased by 7.9% but tv and Internet increased by 20%. All those services use the same facilities and require technicians to connect them anyways and those stats show a net gain of 12.1% in facility usage.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:11am

      I don’t understand something. Verizon is a private company, not in the public sector. If the contract is up, just don’t renew it. Leave the unions high and dry.

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    • ProgressivesAreEvil
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:34pm

      What most people fail to realize, and what Verizon doesn’t mention is that cell phones need land lines. People must think they work magically out of thin air. Cell phones get their signals from cells sites atop towers, tall buildings, even many apartment buildings rent roof top space to cell sites.

      Cellsites are connected to landlines.

      It works like this:
      CellphoneCellsitelandlineCellsiteCellphone

      So verizon may complain about losing residential landlines but it’s really a zero sum game. Those workers have built and are maintaining the cellsites which are the foundation of all verizon wireless profits.

      The union bigs at the top are indeed socialist types, but the workers have a case against verizon this time and this is a private sector situation regardless of who else that union represents.

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  • ARealCharliesAngel
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:39pm

    Let them all quit & step aside and those that have searched for jobs step up! F the Unions! This is another example where Unions show they are losiing their power & thugery influence.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 2:05am

      WIth expireed contracts, Im surprised Verizon didn’t just start hiring new people.

      Lotta good that 14 day strike did! Oh, nope.. wait… no it didn’t.

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    • ProgressivesAreEvil
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:52pm

      Actually that might not be as easy as it sounds, hiring new people into a work group that has a bunch of veterans who know the area and outside plant conditions is easy enough.

      But hiring all new people without having a good portion of employees experienced in the plant would severely hamper the companies ability to react to consumer demand and damage done to the plant from environmental factors ( i.e. storms and harsh weather).

      I think Verizon knows this and doesn’t want to risk losing their place in the market that is why they deal with these unions…..eventually the unions will diminish from attrition if verizon just doesn’t hire any new people until they reach the minimum number of employees they believe they will need for the future.

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:31pm

    Awwwww…. poor babies. I used to work for NYNEX 20 years ago before it folded into becoming Verizon in their non-union Business Services division, we paid into our own health benefit program, and we didn’t benefit from profits from the other divisions, nor did those divisions profit from us.

    Poor poor babies will have to pay into your own health benefits packages, oh let me get you a tissue, on second thought, why don’t you have your union management give you a box of kleenex, they are the ones raking in the cash on you and every other union sucker who is FORCED to have to pay union dues for WHAT?!?!? Nothing, you get crap from your unions other then a bad name, grow up, grow some adult brain cells and realize that OSHA and Labor Laws already cover you the same as non-union workers, you’re all the same, the union is nothing but a strong arm money grubbing racketeering ring one step shy of a RICO indictment.

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    • Erabin
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:36am

      If Unions go, so will labor laws eventually.

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    • capitalismrocks
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:38am

      Actually if unions go, labor laws will be strengthen and OSHA standards will probably be even better, unions are a cancerous menace.

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:42am

      In the early 80′s I worked in a union aircraft plant that had five or six unions. The presidents of these unions did nothing all day and could care less about their members, yet they made over $100K each. All these goons want is more money for themselves and to hell with everyone else.

      Verizon should ignore the contract like OweBlamer ignores the constitution and hire the many willing non union people who are looking for a job.

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:31pm

    a union makes greddy grubby leachs out of a men…leaches of society and taxpayers

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    • Erabin
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:41am

      “Stopped paying dues decades ago.

      My dad was a union man his whole life. About 3 months before he knew he was losing his job his union steward came to him and said if you pay your dues up front for the next year, we will ensure you have a job. He asked him where is this job? The steward wouldn’t tell him and just kept saying, just pay your dues and you will have a job. My dad’s dues were several thousand dollars a year, and this was 1980, finally he got them to tell them where the guaranteed job was, “Alaska” the same job he had turned down a dozen times. But, hey, we will give you the sucky job no one else will take, just give us our dues. That is the union of the 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010. The only thing is now they will fly the hammer and sickle with pride.”

      A thing that didn’t happen

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    • dscon
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:08am

      erabin:
      is this you?
      “About Me
      Im a junior at Brandeis University studying business and International Global Studies. Im a New York born and raised. I play guitar and love to go to concerts. I recently became a National Master and am now going to work to get my fide rating up to make FM.”

      how’s that underwater basketweaving couse going there!
      little college boy!

      this explains your “oh so cerebral” comments!

      what is the goal of your business prof.?
      teach u how to overthrow capitalism and the american way of life 101.
      oh the young and college endoctrinated sheep!

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:28pm

    i cancelld verizon when it started,,,and now they cave…i dont want wimps handling my communication service,,,if they start firing this riff raff maybe i will re suscribe…lol

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    • ProgressivesAreEvil
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:10pm

      I think it had more to do with the fact that for half the days of the strike it has rained around the NE. I heard the trouble report rate is about 500% higher than normal and verizon has a skeleton crew of managers doing repairs…most of whom haven’t been out from behind a desk in 10 years.

      The contract is not settled yet so who knows really what the true motives of either party is in returning to work. The unions might have gotten an edge due to the weather, or verizon is just playing nice temporarily to clean up the plant troubles.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:26pm

    I cannot believe Verizon is letting these thugs who were using terrorist tactics against them back into their offices. They can not be trusted. Verizon is now allowing a bunch of arrogant, angry, “chip on their shoulder”, ungrateful troublemakers loose in their territory. And they probably cannot fire any of them if they sabotage (or do a crappy job) anything for fear of an accusation of a retaliatory action lawsuit. Negotiations should have ceased & they should have been replaced with the thousands of unemployed, desperate people in our Country who would do a good job and probably not join the stinking union.

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:19pm

    Hopefully, Verizon managers will be not only empowered but instructed to fire ever single “union” employee that calls in sick Monday.

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  • PA PATRIOT
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:16pm

    Looks like Verizon workers saw something on the Horizon.

    Air Traffic Controllers?

    Replacement?

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  • Restoreamericanow
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:11pm

    I am solo tired of all these union people. Be grateful for the job you have! I just wish those union idiots coul get a dose of non-union life for a while….that would shut them the hell up!!!!!

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  • grungewehr39
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:09pm

    F@%K ‘EM. Fire the lot of them. The contract expired. Then your “right” to employment has expired. I have seen these guys on T.V. spouting some pretty bad stuff about the company they “work” for. Dump the lot of them and hire some of the hard working, honest people out there looking for work.

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  • cmaczko
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:06pm

    been watching strikers as i drive to work daily and at the building directly next door to our office. Keep wondering what exactly the strike is over – still can’t figure it out. Don’t believe in unions – they had their place, but that’s old news. Too bad Verizon is obligated to union labor. Teaches all new business ventures to never go there. Thanks for the lesson.

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    • capitalismrocks
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:38pm

      This wouldn‘t be a problem if all of the States were Right to Work states and none of these people had to be in a union or pay union fees if they didn’t want to. Its all about fairness and choice. If you don’t have to or want to be in a union, then don’t. No one should be forced to do so because they want to be a cable & wire installer and the only jobs in their field are union required, how is that fair – its your skills and your trade, you shouldnt be forced to join some group or union just to get a job, its unfair to people who want to work.

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  • JoeinKansas
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:06pm

    I think Verizon should think about having these people come back, no telling what they will do!

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  • CrazyTexan
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:04pm

    People still have land lines? I dumped ours as soon as everyone who needed them here got cell phones; got tired of paying an extra $75 a month. No more solicitation calls in the middle of dinner, it’s great!

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  • Look4DBigPicture
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:04pm

    Verizon should have fired the worthless mob and replaced them with non-union workers. I’m sure there are more than enough qualified applicants who would love to get off of unemployment and take their jobs.

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  • Tom21773
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:03pm

    What a bunch of losers. It’s about time. Maybe all the unions can start falling apart now.

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  • Dallasmarine
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:00pm

    Does the phrase “Take it or leave it” seem in order? Oh I don’t know where we could find workers to replace you in this economy!

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  • TheGreyPiper
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:55pm

    I’ve been walking by these guys every day in Boston, morning and evening, back and forth from South Station. They’re the IBEW bunch. I recall one guy had a t-shirt with the picture of a cobra coiled ready to – yes – “strike”, and some charming slogan with it, “Ready and able!” or something. They had a sign hung up -not carried- one day: “Your job is next!” All I could think was, “YOU’RE the ones who walked off of yours, d00shbags!”

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  • welloddyfriggindah
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:54pm

    Time to cancel my Verizon landline!!

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  • Banter
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:48pm

    Made total jackasses of yourselves, and you didn’t even win one concession? So, it‘s not that you don’t have the ba!!s to do this, just that you are incompetent.

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    • Caerus
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:03pm

      Verizon employees, incompetent? Well, duh. ;-)

      At least it wasn’t Comcast employees. They’d still be trying to figure out how to go on strike.

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  • billybe123
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:46pm

    I always wondered why my Verizon bill is so high. Freeken overpaid union workers! Down with unions! Sick of these spoiled greedy people.

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    • Mplsv1401
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:55pm

      Keep paying it pal…I‘ve got one he’ll of a lifestyle to keep ; )

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    • Mplsv1401
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:59pm

      Cancell it. You have a choice. Stop your damn whining!

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:06pm

      MPL, if you’re really a Verizon union employee, you might want to dial back that cockiness a notch. Looks like your actual productive worth may have just been exposed. You may want to start practicing, “Would you like fries with that?”.

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    • El Pistoffo
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 2:56am

      Don’t count on your bill to go down, union or not. It’s just like taxes. Does anyone remember the scam Verizon got caught up in about a year ago. They had a billing error on countless accounts charging $1.99/month misc. fee. Someone in the accounting dept. brought it to the attention of the upper brass and their response was “leave it, it’s making us millions”. Well they got caught and had to repay it plus fines. They are just as greedy as the unions. BTW, I do not support unions nor unscrupulous companies.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:54am

      @MPL
      Your life style is in jepordy pal. America is tired of footing the bills for sorry ass socialists that think membership in a union makes them worth while. I have never seen a union man worth his salt. I have hired many and fired many, and I don’t hire them anymore. The worst thing you could put on your application for employment is that you were once a union member. Ruined forever. Not worth the trouble to train, always whinning.

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    • Erabin
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:40am

      “I always wondered why my Verizon bill is so high.”

      Your bill is as high as it is because Verizon takes what it can get away with. You don’t believe that your bill would go down if the Union suddenly disappeared, do you?

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  • ShayPackrit
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:43pm

    Why on Earth would you let these people back? They sabotaged your business, they terrorized the CEO at his home. Why let the fox back into the hen house? Do you think they won’t steal? Do you think they won’t destroy your equipment? Dumb move letting them back. Once a union gets destructive, you can no longer trust them.

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:43pm

    There is almost nothing better to see than spoiled, uppity union workers slinking back to their crappy, overpaid jobs with their tails between their legs.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:41pm

    Can you hear us now????? No, I guess we will come back to work, we just got the bills in the mail and what our union gave us for being out on strike. Can’t pay for the Sunday Ticket on 50 bucks a week. Why are we paying dues????

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    • Mplsv1401
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:52pm

      At least you didn’t cross the picket line bro. From the comments I’ve read on here regarding the strike. The union seriously needs a pr overhaul. Only one side of thecsory is being heard. It’s sad.

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    • ALL4FREEDOM
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:09pm

      You pay dues so that the bloodsucking parasites running your unions can have better pay, job security, benefits, and retirement income than you do. Ask to see the books and see what kind of answer you get.

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    • Mplsv1401
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:27pm

      Go clean your gun pal….just make sure it’s not loaded. Besides what’s wrong with a fast food job? It’s non union! Just what you boys want.

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:41pm

      MPL, did you figure out that many of us here are anti-union on your own? Man, you’re SHARP.

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    • Mplsv1401
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:02am

      And you’re easy : ) Damn that talk radio. I think the unions need to buy some advertising spots from rush, beck, hannity. haha that would be priceless!

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    • capitalismrocks
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 1:43am

      Why are you paying dues?!?!? Well somebody‘s gotta pay for Trumpka’s Learjet and expensive trips around the nation and globe…. someone’s gotta pay for all those Democratic campaign donations… so it might as well be you schmucks who are forced to pay dues because you wanted to get into a profession that is dominated by unions, you wanted a job, not a union job, just a job… now your stuck having to shell out union dues and what you don’t realize is the union does NOTHING for you, you were already covered as a non-union worked on Labor Laws and OSHA requirements – you’ve been sucked and Trumpka is laughing at you all the way to his cozy off shore Cayman Islands bank….

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 3:24am

      Stopped paying dues decades ago.

      My dad was a union man his whole life. About 3 months before he knew he was losing his job his union steward came to him and said if you pay your dues up front for the next year, we will ensure you have a job. He asked him where is this job? The steward wouldn’t tell him and just kept saying, just pay your dues and you will have a job. My dad’s dues were several thousand dollars a year, and this was 1980, finally he got them to tell them where the guaranteed job was, “Alaska” the same job he had turned down a dozen times. But, hey, we will give you the sucky job no one else will take, just give us our dues. That is the union of the 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010. The only thing is now they will fly the hammer and sickle with pride.

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    • mohavegreen
      Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:21pm

      1401? Coincidence that Local 1401 American Federation of Government Employees is at Andrews Airforce Base home of the Obamanation Escape Mobile. Think maybe strike by this union against waste shoveling would keep the occupant of the white hut “commander at large” home long enough too at least listen to what is happening. No tie and rolled up sleeves are Obamantions interpretation of work as he has never attempted it or even recognize it. Just opens another bottle of Joe Montana Jaw Juice and continues to blame not lead.

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