What do you do when you sell a house with a bad foundation? You paint the outside and do landscaping. A pig in lipstick is still a pig. Get ready folks. Not only in Pennsylvania but anywhere in the footprint. Notice them making improvements to the buildings and grounds? Why sink money into something to make it pretty if it doesnt make money?
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From a job posting for a Tech job at Brightspeed. Def looks like they are anti union...
This position is part of a bargaining unit and represented by a union. Depending upon the applicable collective bargaining agreement under which you may be hired, you may be: (a) required to join the union and pay union dues as a condition of employment; or, (b) required to pay union dues, but not join the union as a condition of employment; or (c) free to choose whether to join the union, but if you do join the union you would be obligated to pay union dues
Brightspeed will push the union out. You can apply for your old job at a much lower rate.
Does anyone know if Brightspeed pay and benefits are the comparable to Verizon?
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This does have a lot to do with layoffs. Impacts, for possibly future layoffs. This may not affect the current ongoing layoffs and outsourcing.
The corporation needs cash and to have this free cash flow to pay the absorbent amount of bills collected (massive corporate debt) -- cliche, charge it.
What does this have to do with layoffs?
Nobody in their right mind would be foolish enough to buy any copper plant. Zero profit to be made, all liability.
At this point I wouldn’t mind just being fired.
I just want the standard layoff severance so badly.
You think your getting 5 years pay to leave? Guess these union guys are d-mber than we thought.
5 5 and 5 new offer coming
They don't care about getting fiber anymore since the government will pay them to put up their own fiber.
Same here, Verizon has been shopping copper since the first fiber build. My understand was that the buyer also wanted some existing fiber areas and Verizon would not budge so it fell through. Verizon is desperate to get rid of the old plant and old bloated union members with 30+ years service which is what is mainly in the copper areas.
https://www.penncapital-star.com/transportation-infrastructure/how-pennsylvania-plans-to-deploy-1-16b-allocated-for-broadband-expansion/
They are in talks with Apollo/Brightspeed. It's not just PA they are talking about. Many different areas in multiple states are on the table being discussed.
Been hearing this for 20 years
Makes some sense. With Pa willing to give 1.16 billion towards rural broadband a smaller company might be willing to make the purchase. Verizon has already refused government money before to expand rural broadband but another company might be willing to take it on. Verizon gets rid of something they have been wanting to ki-l off for a long time now. The purchasing company gets it at a "discounted" rate along with the supplement of the government money.
Just updated facility maps and fu---d them all up. This post makes sense to me.