Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

I can confirm this as well.

Cw will be taking over basking ridge operations ..while we are on EWA , then come our rif..

I can also vouch this is not propaganda. A friend of mine, whom I have known since we both started with GTE in the 90s, is now (and has been for at least a year) managing projects for CW in the building that he used to run when he was a Verizon employee. So, all of these changes are not happening on the fly as we might think, they've been going on in the background for a few years. The company is definitely prepared for the strike, and I think that's why they are digging in. The union digging in (in return) only helps accelerate the plan that was already going to happen anyway. That being said, all of us, the union or not, should be making hay while the sun shines (as in making as much money as we can while we are still here).

Its not propanganda. Seriously.

@ejs you can call it propaganda if you want. But that doesn't negate the fact that it's true. This really gives me a sick feeling in my stomach that this is just the beginning. I think Verizon is going to start utilizing contractors in a lot of areas, not just union jobs.

LOL. You guys invent new propaganda everyday.

"I'm sort of shocked by this. Having worked with Cushman in the past I never took them as being used for union breaking. When I was employed with them it was with a union."

They are not breaking the union, or even attempting to do so. They are just being given a job to manage projects and run buildings....The same things they have already done for years for the company. They're just going to do more of it now. It's almost a certainty that they are supplying building techs/mechanics as well.

This is also going to affect those union contractors who, in support of the CWA/IBEW strike, have refused to continue active work and left projects unfinished. This probably means that a good number of those outside of the CWA and IBEW will, if they are not let go, will at least see a pretty big reduction in their paychecks :-(. This ancillary stuff is where it starts to get depressing. The CWA/IBEW staying out on strike is affecting the livelihoods of many others outside of that particular union. I am sure many realize this, and many who are being affected are still willing participants. But it's still depressing nonetheless.

I'm sort of shocked by this. Having worked with Cushman in the past I never took them as being used for union breaking. When I was employed with them it was with a union.

I think we can expect the union contractors working on Verizon projects who have refused to continue work on those projects during the strike to be removed from any future project bid lists (RFPs). This may be an unfortunate bit of collateral damage, but I think I understand where the company will be coming from. If a contractor was doing work on my house and refused to continue for whatever reason, he would certainly not be invited back either.

CW, JLL and others have been managing projects for Verizon for years. Their role is simply expanding now, as the timing is right. Other union contractors who have refused to cross picket lines have caused this contingency plan to be implemented. It's no big deal really, this was already in the works anyway (the company is just doing it a little bit sooner than they would have otherwise).

"For Christ sake....Cushman and Wakefield is a real estate firm folks."

They are far more then a bunch of real estate agents.

In certain parts of the country they have been completely running our facilities for several years. In a good number of those cases, they simply take on the Verizon folks who were doing the job before and those folks continue on in the position, they just no longer work for Verizon.

And the wireline is dead?

For Christ sake....Cushman and Wakefield is a real estate firm folks.

This better not be true

"So it's official."

Says who?

Cool. I got a job at CW after VZ laid me off... Guess it's coming around.