CWA let us go back to work while you deal with what you “can’t disclose.” Many stalled today and held the line but bills are due for sure.
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The company is waiting to see what D9 does before any serious discussions with D3.
$hits gonna get real if D9 turns down the TA.
Y'all would be stupid to vote it down.
Nice try company shill.
If we turn it down and walk that'll be two regions out on strike with hurricane season on the east coast and fire season on the west coast looming. You think they have enough CP workers?
C-Suite can take paycuts so we can get our peanuts.
“ If you aren’t a troll. There are plenty of temp jobs/side gigs out there. We had 5 weeks pay in August and getting strike pay this week. Understand if you just started but if you are a long time employee it’s on you for not planning for a strike. Not like the contract expiration snuck up on anyone, everyone knew the date from the day it was signed five years ago.
I and a majority of long term employees are enjoying the extra downtime. Several have and will be able to sneak in an extra vacation this year. I just returned from the Smokies, won some money at Harrah’s on the way back, had a great time! Let this be a lesson for everyone going forward, preparation means no or little stress. If possible everyone should have an emergency fund, I built mine by directing part of my yearly raise to an emergency account. Easy to do now using Workday. Stay Strong!”
You are unable to comprehend the general weakness of the audience you are speaking to. They have never been expected to prepare for hard times. They got trophies while riding the bench as the team lost. They have spent their life placing blame on others for their circumstances. Expecting them to prepare is way beyond their capabilities as a child in an adult’s body. Look at the posts on this site and the up and down votes. The majority here will never survive adulthood. They mentally do not have the fortitude to continue to march uphill against adversity. They will fail under the desire to demand a reversal of RTO. They can’t process anything beyond that.
“So shut up with your middle age, RV driving, "I don't even have to have a side hustle cause it's just me and the old lady going to Gatlinburg eating beer cheese and saltwater taffy for a week" privilege.”
You meant to say Boomer. Those of us that are Gen X are broke too. The boomers are going to make sure of that.
Well, you could go find a better job like I did. I’ll be watching this drama from the sidelines starting on Monday.
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I don't think it's that deep. I mean, the guy was toolin' around the Smokies in an RV. I would have assumed he was white. Heck, I'm white, and I thought sanctimonious Smokies guy was white. The inclusion of that one word--white--didn't automatically make me assume the poster's race. However, that poster does sound young, and having old farts scream at them to hold the line while they tool around said Smokies and the young guys are living paycheck to paycheck...as Smokies admitted he was, too at that age, isn't productive.
I agreed with him 100%, even on the white part.
Subcontractor craft and subcontractor management coming soon to a picket line near you. You don't have to like it.
Maybe if our TA is voted down this weekend we will join you.
You already got a better TA than they're offering us. Turn it down, and you may well be offered less. There's been no 5% ratification raise or bonus on the table. Heck your lowest annual raise is better than we're being offered, too. Y'all would be stupid to vote it down. So, um, thanks anyway.
“ You are absolutely tone deaf.”
I agree with some of what you said but when you called the guy white as if it was a bad thing and called him privileged, well now im stepping in.
Whatever you are dealing with in YOUR LIFE is based on YOUR DECISIONS or YOUR set of cards dealt. So YOU deal with them DEI man.
The guy with the RV likely already traveled down your bumpy road and is enjoying the other side of the hill. He doesn’t owe you squat and sure as he-l shouldn’t own your struggles and growth period in life. We all get dealt bad cards, even white people. So stop your race bating mr. DEI, YOU are the privileged one. YOU.
Yes, credit unions will defer payments for striking workers, call and ask while on the picket line. Other creditors will too, just ask.
A lot of creditors will suspend payments while you are on a strike.
Also, please know, D3, that we, D9, support you in your ULP. I have talked to many techs that wonder why we didn't coordinate a strike together. Maybe if our TA is voted down this weekend we will join you.
The 70’s and early 80’s would say to the 2000’s, hold my beer, interest rates were through the roof, no jobs, etc... Go check out what interest rates and what Cater stagflation did to GenX generation. Pensions also became a thing of the past and no one was educated or auto enrolled in the new 401k programs. It’s the elites and globalist we all need to be fighting, not each other. From middle management down, companies are putting everyone’s careers and standard of living at risk by offshoring and reducing benefits and not even attempting to keep up with inflation. While the elite and Wall Street funds enrich themselves more every year while crying, there isn’t enough money to sustain the company.
Hang in there!
Hola Senor, trabajo en Uverse. Uverse been berry berry good to me. Mucho mucho telephone con internet. Gracias AT&T
we had student loans, recessions, kids, mortgages, car notes, wars, we lived pay check to pay check, etc..
Hypocrite.
Aww, this is the first time anyone has ever struck trolls, 😆. Nearly everyone starts at the bottom and works up and improves their life situation. It just takes years to get there, the microwave, everyone gets atrophy, scrolling, attention span of a gnat generation, want it to happen mow because they just showed up. You don’t think it took decades for senior employees to build their “wealth”, we had student loans, recessions, kids, mortgages, car notes, wars, we lived pay check to pay check, etc..
It’s not like it hasn’t happened before, my grandfather’s generation went through a real depression and fought WWII, Korea. He also was one of the first CWA union members and they had real long strikes back in the day to negotiate what benefits and wage scales we enjoy today. They worked whatever jobs they could to hold the line. Painting, construction, handyman, driving, etc.. There wasn’t temp agencies on every corner or the internet to search for gig/temp work back then. It was word of mouth, local newspaper want ads or beat the streets looking for work. So cry me a river about how hard you have it, company trolls and youngster! 🥲 See you at the line! In Unity!
Please do. Tell baby doll I b right there.
You had 5 years to save for a strike. You knew when the contract would expire. There’s no excuse for not having funds to sustain yourself for two months. Zero sympathy for those who did not plan or save for this day.
And students had 4 years to pay down their loans, but how many actually did? And have you seen the articles about there being the highest credit card debt in history?
Again, with the tone deaf sh-t from someone who's been with the company way too long and likes to talk down to their brothers instead of advising them and helping them.
You had 5 years to save for a strike. You knew when the contract would expire. There’s no excuse for not having funds to sustain yourself for two months. Zero sympathy for those who did not plan or save for this day.
You are absolutely tone deaf. Just because you've been working so long that you can afford to not work, and you can afford an RV, and you can afford put away tons of extra money doesn't mean that the younger ones with multiple kids in school and with far less years of service than you can afford the same. You sound well over 40, probably more like 50, probably white, with kids already out of school, and a fat-a-s pension when you retire in less than 5 years. You probably bought a house years ago, so you also enjoy low mortgage payments, or he-l, certainly not rising rent prices.
It also goes totally against what the CWA is selling. Shut up with your RV, and multiple vacations, just gives the company ammo to say, "See, we pay them plenty." The rest of us live closer to paycheck to paycheck than we'd like. We have car payments with gross interest, house payments with gross interest, student loans still due, day care costs, because I can't take the baby along on a side gig, and extra curriculars for the older ones who play fall sports. Do you have any idea how much those sports cost? And heaven forbid I need any extra to put into college accounts, or are you thinking I should borrow from those, too, along with my 401k that I've only been able to put in a minimal amount?
So shut up with your middle age, RV driving, "I don't even have to have a side hustle cause it's just me and the old lady going to Gatlinburg eating beer cheese and saltwater taffy for a week" privilege.
“ If possible everyone should have an emergency fund, I built mine by directing part of my yearly raise to an emergency account. Easy to do now using Workday. ”
Great advice, but does this really have to an emergency?
Other regions seem to win decent deals without striking. In the SE, it’s “ mine is bigger”. Yeah right, your truckis bigger because you’re actually smaller.
This su-ks…
If you aren’t a troll. There are plenty of temp jobs/side gigs out there. We had 5 weeks pay in August and getting strike pay this week. Understand if you just started but if you are a long time employee it’s on you for not planning for a strike. Not like the contract expiration snuck up on anyone, everyone knew the date from the day it was signed five years ago.
I and a majority of long term employees are enjoying the extra downtime. Several have and will be able to sneak in an extra vacation this year. I just returned from the Smokies, won some money at Harrah’s on the way back, had a great time! Let this be a lesson for everyone going forward, preparation means no or little stress. If possible everyone should have an emergency fund, I built mine by directing part of my yearly raise to an emergency account. Easy to do now using Workday. Stay Strong!
Stay strong
I support Unions but I’m with this poster. Let the union people work while the negotiations continue ….
So you have a job, but you can’t work? Do you really have a job?
Who said you can't work? That's a lie. You can go and work tomorrow, no one will stop you.