Quote:You might want to read up on what the workers are striking about. I mean at the end of the day, I know you really don't care and are just gonna side with the corporation, but at least understand both sides of the argument.


And demanding that your employer can't make you travel hundreds of miles away to a site for months at a time, forcing workers to either suffer through it out quit seems like a reasonable negotiating point. The union believes verizon is pushing this measure in order to force attrition and then never fill those positions back in, thus saving money at the price of workers and customer satisfaction.


Also, the fact that Verizon wants to move call centers out of the usa seems like a good thing for American workers to push back against, but hey, I'm just a crazy liberal. I haven't lost enough of my soul to be able to side with Verizon, like you have. As the saying goes, c'est la vie.

 

However, if you bothered to read one of the stories that I linked above, you would know that these workers are in a division of the company that actually loses money and costs the company.

 

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Most of the striking workers service the company's landline phone business and FiOS broadband network -- not the much larger Verizon Wireless network.

 

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t's true that Verizon continues to post record profit, but most of that is coming from its wireless business. The "wireline" business that most CWA workers serve is in decline.

 

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Wireline sales have been steadily falling over the past several years. Last year sales fell by nearly 2%, and Verizon lost 1.4 million voice customers.

 

So this part of the business is failing and in a decline.  What should the company do?  Offer more money and benefits to workers, or cut the losses?  They did offer a pretty generous deal that the union declined.

 

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Verizon said it has offered a wage increase of 7.5 percent and will continue to match employee retirement saving contributions and increase pensions over three years.

 

Yet the workers in a declining and failing part of the business reject that.  So who exactly is being "greedy"?

 

Quote:With all due respect, jib, I just blew you the heck out in regards to the" facts of the matter". It's clear you have one side's talking points.


But you clearly don't understand what the issues both sides are in conflict over.

 

Refer to the above.

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