@GZSnK4S-1xiy so when are you going to quit shamwow? Douche bag!
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RIP Traditional Telco companies. It was real.
The cow will dry up even faster of you greedy associates milk it too hard
The only fact is that not one of you morons on either side have any idea of what the f--- you are talking about. Opinions are like a--holes everyone has one.
I say we stay out past the shareholder's meeting just to screw with them even more. Ha ha!
@cnv......That's good! This might be a good time to retire.
@GZSnK4S-rnx is yet another anti-American troll. One of the H1B t_rds perhaps, but definitely not someone who should be in any position of trust.
Of course they can phase out the union. The union willfully walked off the job. All the company has to do is lock them out and give them two weeks to either come back or automatically resign their position by not showing up for work. The law is very clear in this regard.
And lets be honest, many of these strikers are call-center employees who make OVER SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS a year just to answer phones. Do you actually think Verizon or any other company is going to raise the salary of a person who makes that much money just for answering phones? No way, especially when there are a ton of people who would love to have that job at half the pay.
So yes a lockout is legal, and yes it is legal to terminate employees who don't show up to work after a lockout is put in place. Ronald Reagan used this same lockout tactic with the Air Traffic Controllers who went on strike back in the 1980s, and most of them never worked again.
They clearly don't like the company and think the company is unfair, so they should quit and go work somewhere else anyway. I'll be interested to see how many of the $60k call center jobs they'll be able to find waiting for them when they go back in the job market.
This will end soon. Either shortly before the Annual Meeting or shortly after. Either way there will likely be a few of the top execs out of work for getting this one all wrong.
There will be no lockout. They can't by law phase out a union on strike. My uncle is a director and paints quite a different picture than you. Verizon can't afford to have the union out much longer.
But they have $5.5 billion to piss away on a product that no one uses.
They have $5 billion to buy an ISP that no one really uses anymore
They have billions to buy Hughes and Terramark who sell services that almost no one will buy from them.
Yet the invest almost nothing in FiOS a service that everyone wants! Time for the company to stop making costly mistakes and fire lomac, mudge, marni, shamwow and reed.
The company has already told the non-EWA employees that it will start paying them overtime just like the EWA employees; that pretty much seals it that the company is preparing for a long haul lock out. They are pulling out all the stops to make it worth the remaining employees' time to put in more hours while they phase out the union people.
The company can't afford to add more cost into the dying wireline business. It's cost structure is already way out of kilter, and the prices it sells it's services for are way higher than market because of the fixed labor costs from the union.
I would be shocked if the Company moved on anything because it would be derelict to stockholders and the rest of the employees. The costs in that part of the company need to reduced, not made larger.
Unless the union gives in, which is unlikely, this strike will go on into May and potentially beyond. From what I hear, if it continues that long the company will be locking people out and hiring temps and contract workers to fill the void so the EWA'ers can get back to their real jobs.
Yep, probably the same corporate pep squad that writes the eweb articles on the intranet.
Definitely smells like McKinsey, the company's go-to consulting firm, who always manage to phuck everything up everytime Verizon hires them. Don't believe a word from these trolls. The Annual meeting is in a couple of weeks, and while they may be hiding our in New Mexico from the unions, they can't hids from the shareholders.
@dik..............kind of funny, just like the poster, a Di(K. Thank you for your concern. Myself, 45 and have enough in savings that I could retire now if I wanted. I am however concerned for my fellow workers both union, non-union and even you believe it or not.
Definitely spam.....I have a lot of friends and family on the bargaining team. Fact; Verizon is moving off some of their demands. They can't afford to go much longer, with the amount of work that is backed up right now.
It is trolls from McKinsey or someone similar that are posting this crap here. Lowell, Reed and Mudge screwed up big time and will have much to answer for at the Annual Meeting. They totally got this one wrong and now have included the company in the Presidential Election.
The AFL/CIO needs to start leaning on the pension fund managers, banks and politicians. The banks who vote the shares, and the politicians who award government contracts.
Time to squeeze these pigs like they have never been squeezed.
BTW - most managers support the union.
I talked to a few folks I know that have family members out on EWA. They all say the same thing. The company was totally caught off guard by the strike. And even people that were ruled "mission critical" the didn't have an EWA are now getting emails saying the may need to go as there is not enough "managers" in the field to keep up.
Go Union! Verizon has already lost.
@ddj Getting scared now. Hope you worked a lot of overtime before the strike. Gonna need money unless McDonalds may be hiring.
This looks to be troll management who is posting responses to his own original post to stir up a reaction.
Ignore this post and move on to one with actual meaning.
VZ has clearly been planning for this to go into a lockout situation and then replace the union employees with cheaper part timers and contractors. They really have no choice if they want to control their costs.
I think in the long run this strike will go down as the turning point in the Telecom industry when the old telephone companies officially died. Back when the big phone companies were at their prime and everyone had POTs lines this strike really shut everything down. But in this "new"era of telecom where people are cutting the cord and going wireless everything the legacy telcos just can't afford the moldy-oldy wireline workforce of yesteryear. It would be the same for the automobile companies if everyone started having their own planes and very few needed cars anymore.
RIP Traditional Telco companies. It was real.
Not for me. I've lost a week's pay already. They got till the end of this week and no more. I'm not losing my savings so you can continue to build your pension past 30 year (I don't even get a pension) and so you can get tuition for knitting classes. Come Monday morning I'm back to work.
You don't need part time jobs. The mighty union has you covered.
Yep. When can we go out and get part time jobs. In Pa ?
Pretty much. Would be a very long strike.