. http://247wallst.com/telecom-wireless/2016/04/21/can-verizon-beat-the-unions-putting-the-current-strike-in-historical-perspective/#ixzz46Ygg2ifw
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The Union is going to go bye-bye
I was in that training. This is fiction.
This article should be filed under Fiction/Fantasy.
Oooh.. ya'll gonna get f---ed up.
"The 2000 strike against Verizon involved 80,000 workers for three weeks, totaling about 9.6 million work hours, assuming a 40-hour work week. Keep in mind that was while unions comprised 69% of the workforce and brought in 80% of the revenue. Now, they comprise 25% and bring in less than 30% of that total. With the prepared strikebreakers already hard at work on 12-hour shifts, it looks like Verizon can last much longer than three weeks this time, and perhaps even longer than the 17-week strike of NYNEX, which is now part of Verizon, of 1989."