They are just not trained and experienced to maintain proper productivity. Everyday Verizon is losing revenue, they just were not expecting too. They thought the EWA would preform enough for them to keep there head above water enough to replace the a current staff. That will never happen, and now how long do you go on with this failing experiment?
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Here you go ikd. It is considered an ulp strike for the simple reason that Verizon is not bargaining in good faith. They have not removed or bargained any of there retro active demands. This IS NOT about more pay. All we want is what we have already. Please inform yourself as to the real reasons we are on strike.
A strike is legal – and therefore protected by the NLRA – if the employees are striking for economic reasons or to protest an unfair labor practice by the employer. In the first scenario, strikers are trying to get some economic concession from the employer, like higher wages, increased benefits, or better working conditions. In the second, workers strike because the employer has engaged in some practice that violates the NLRA, like refusing to bargain with the union or discriminating against union members.
@H0ouK42-wnv there are probably 100 secretaries per one engineer
I have no skin in the game but have been following the issues. I don't understand why this wouldn't be considered an economic strike. Can you help me understand?
To anybody who might actually believe these idiots who post the company is going to hire permanent replacements, please don't listen to them. We are engaged in a legal strike that is NOT based on economics. By law they can NOT hire permanent replacements. So when and I do say when we sign a new contract your job will be there. The people posting there nonsense posts should be the ones worrying about there jobs a hell of a lot more than you. Stay strong
You forget, some of the EWA workers desinged this stuff, and understand it.
They are not all managers.
The truth is the EWA workers are holding there own.
New contractors will be hired on May 1, and trained.
The longer the strike goes, the worst for the union.
Management is in for the long haul, and the union will lose.
They broke the groups into colors, similar to belt colors in karate. People with yellow lanyards were in copper which was three days were really only taught how to do work arounds and never taught how the basic copper infrastructure works. It seemed that mostly secretaries and directors with no technical skills were in copper.
Then the green lanyard people were in FiOS training, which was mostly focused on installations, with a very brief team excercise or two in shooting a basic trouble.
Again, the instructors were pretty good, but the training was very, very, high level.
There was also no mandate to finish any of the online training in electronics, electricity or basic telecom theory before training.
Both copper and fios training was about half of what was taught in earlier stike training. The same went for pole climbing.
It seemed more like a summer camp experience than and serious training. Pool tables, night club and even a bar with a 'karaoke night'.
All in all, it was not enough training to do anything long term in the field.
I went to the training , it was basic. While doing the training they broke ius down into groups . They realized many were not capable to do certain tasks.
@H0ouK42-cvr they were only taught how to do work-arounds. There was almost no trouble shooting, and most who attended Verizon summer camp could not tell you what a ground, short or open are. How to find them if they knew what they were, or how to fix them if they even know what they are.
They just simply were not prepared before they went to training, and whatever those excellent instructors taught has been forgotten.
The company thought because you did not go out on strike by Christmas that they had won and the union lost. Looks like the company got that wrong too!
They were not trained appropriately. Anyone who attended Verizon Training Camp at the National Conference Center in Leesburg, Virginia last year knows this.
Where do you get this information from?
Yes sir!
I hope this doesn't go on much longer. The Ewas are able to fix simple troubles and show face to customers. They are just simply not trained to fix anything complex such as buisness outages....cell tower troubles....Rouge ont's......
without CWA I wouldn't want to work there anyway so let them break it if they can. they haven't done it yet.
re: Verizon's plan is failing, because they miscalculated the effectiveness of the EWA...
Another useless union propaganda comment, based on zero facts.
Verizon's plan is to break the CWA, and it's working fine. No one in upper management expect the EWAs to do as well as they are doing now. Bernie is finished. Replacements are coming in. By the end of this month the Verizon CWA will be no more.