Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

Verizon CEO slams Bernie Sanders' 'contemptible' views

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam took a big shot at Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Wednesday for siding with striking Verizon workers and criticizing McAdam's company.

Thousands of East Coast Verizon workers walked off the job earlier in the day after the company and the Communications Workers of America union failed to come to a compromise over months-old benefits negotiations.

In a LinkedIn post, McAdam criticized Sanders' support for the Verizon workers, which the CEO characterized as "uninformed" and "contemptible."

"I understand that rhetoric gets heated in a Presidential campaign," McAdam wrote. "I also get that big companies are an easy target for candidates looking for convenient villains for the economic distress felt by many of our citizens."

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http://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-ceo-bernie-sanders-cwa-2016-4

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Post ID: @OP+GToaMe6

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Be careful voting for a self admitted socialist, if you think it's bad now wait until the 1% get taxed to pay their fair share...more layoffs

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Post ID: @2jsb+GToaMe6

wait. the verizon ceo has only been the ceo for FIVE years? and he spouts off like this????

time to pull him. this is not good for business or morale.

it appears the verizon ceo's worst enemy is himself.

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Post ID: @1lln+GToaMe6

Hey lowell, me boy. That feeling of rage and frustration that is growing in your head, because your employees ares striking. That feeling that nobody listens to you, yet everyone should be required to listen to you. That's all part of ENTITLEMENT...

Look it up......

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Post ID: @1ftd+GToaMe6

Everytime he opens his mouth you see how out of touch he is. The ultra rich live in bubbles with other rich people, if you don't have interaction with the common man you lose perspective. Other then that, he's a really cool dude.

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Post ID: @1bqu+GToaMe6

Does verizon own citizens now?

like they fell they "own" workers here. arrogant egotistical son-of-a-b!tch is lowell.

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Post ID: @1kul+GToaMe6

He says he is frustrated....And what about Verizon employees? What a jerk...

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Post ID: @hub+GToaMe6

Here's a man making 18 million a year and a company making 18 BILLiON in profit a year, but he can't understand the commoners anger for trying to take pensions and other benefits away from his workers! How detached from reality can you be?

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Post ID: @iov+GToaMe6

Tears of a Greedy CEO that doesn't need from his employees, but rather just wants. Prove to me Mr. McAdam that your company needs concessions from your employees. All the while your company is making not millions, but is making Billions of dollars in pure profit a month. Please Justify your salary to me as you send American Jobs overseas, and fire American workers here in America for your own personal wealth. Explain to the American worker that you would rather save money by offshoring jobs and letting the American work go on unemployment while you give yourself bonuses.

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Post ID: @omb+GToaMe6

Very is a public company. Their tax records are right there for anyone who wants to see. Mr. Berns is no different than any other politician. He'll do anything for a vote or some free airtime. (Free, paid for by striker's lost wages.)

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Post ID: @yfo+GToaMe6

Lowell, I dumped my Verizon stock and my Verizon services and I'm donating to Bernie's campaign. Can you hear me know?

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Post ID: @aph+GToaMe6

Lowell is a typical 1%er. If you squeeze a nickel out of him, he'll cry bloody murder.

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Post ID: @mpt+GToaMe6

poor baby on defense

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