Don't let up and don't be fooled. Keep people away from the wireless stores. Let them know that they by crossing our lines they are helping to destroy the middle class. Keep up the 2AM rallies outside any hotel that offers shelter to scabs. Maintain strong picket lines at all work locations to deter or at least delay scabs. Stay within the boundaries of the law. Don't give them any excuses. Be loud and strong. Encourage others to join in our fight. Don't let our own leaders sell us out again. No contract no work! The next few months may well determine the fate of the middle class.
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If the people that feel like they are getting bullied are EWA's then...... I guess I would say..... If you don't like your job, you should quit. I have only read that on this site about union employees hundreds of time. Same should go for anyone else who is not happy with their job. If you want to be a manager at VZ be prepared to get harassed by the union work force every 3 years when there is a strike or quit. Walmart needs managers too....
....And the Union guys are a bunch of tough guys yelling and getting in the face of people that are not allowed to say anything back or protect themselves.....who are the schoolyard bullies?
@ncc. Not butt hurt at all. Any of the anti union internet tough guys who have such strong feelings on all things related to this work stoppage and union activities in general should go visit a picket line. Approach, one of the striking workers and start spewing your BS internet rantings live to a real person. Go put on pants, make sure cat has enough food in his dish and tell your mom you might not be home for dinner tonight. See you out there chump!!!
RIF's apply to management. Never heard of an associate getting RIF'ed. They actually have a different name for the associate process. Can you tell me what that is there, "insider"?
@drr, you sound butt-hurt bro.
Just to be clear ---> The union pleaded for the mediated meeting.
Why you may ask?
Because the rif paperwork is in motion.
I care about your families so please swallow the UNION PRIDE instilled in you by probably your grandfather and father who retired with fat pensions. Those days are far gone. Either cross and get with the times or go down and spend the next 20 years drunk in a bar telling your stories of how you fought the good fight.
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Union brothers and sisters dont take much stock into the negative comments on this board. Most of it is coming from Chris Shelton, who apparently has nothing else going for him, so he trolls this site night and day.
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HE COMPANY PLANTS ARE ALL OVER THE PRO UNION POSTS ON THIS BOARD!!!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP NO WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP NO WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP NO WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP NO WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP NO WORK CWA & IBEW
"You admit the Assoc. had it good ....then why strike?"
Because VZ wanted to take away way too much. More than we could let them get away without a fight.
And we really didn't have it good over the last couple of years.
Verizon used to be a great company to work for on both sides of the fence. Not anymore.
"It pays to be Union"
You admit the Assoc. had it good ....then why strike?
I am usually all for the unionncause but they Union members lose me when they are dicks to other middle class workers being forced to work. I'd you really want to get your message out about VZ you shod combine the two groups....not only is the company mistreating unions they are putting a gun to the head of other middle class workers by forcing them to do EWA's and work sweatshop hours awaynfromnthier famileys and why? Due to similar reasons as to union....they need a job with benefits. If the public new how stupid you acted or treated thise people you would lose more public support....hence not much is in YouTube this year. The CWA has torn a page from the Chicago Teachers Union Strike. ...
Quit living in the past with the "Scab" talk and other sh--....itnis not 1950.....those are not "non-employees" and most of them are not 'managers' they are just slaried employees....VZ labels ANY salaried employee a mgr whether they are IR not. Maybe some will get rif'd in the end but that is all the more reason to make this extra money....
I have seen a few claim they should walk off the job....news flash...it is Apples and Oranges....they walk they get fired...you guys will come back when an agreement is reached. EWA folks need a job as much as Union folks and it is not personal not anti union.
Union brothers and sisters dont take much stock into the negative comments on this board. Most of it is coming from one pathetic loser, who apparently has nothing else going for him, so he trolls this site night and day. This site gives gim a platform to say things from the computer in his mothers basement that he would never have the balls to say to someone in real life. Enjoy, your audience now lowlife because the strike will eventually end and real men and women will go back to work and you will still be on this site posting negative BS.
The picketers outside the VZW stores are starting to look like homeless people. The hot dog grill and beer cooler should help identify them as CWA members, so they should not be brought to shelters under any circumstances!
It pays to be union.
Wow - The Union paya less then $45 a paycheck for health care....wah.
Don't be surprised if I accidentally toss a ice bucket with pee out the hotel window. I need a restful sleep, girls!
I love all of company sympathizers who think we should be grateful that the benevolent gods of Verizon "gave' us jobs out of the goodness of their hearts and we should be thankful and agree to work for less while they continue to make more. SMH
Do you gobble each others cranks when you are not picketing. That must be extra special for you
If you don't like what the company offers, there is no reason to work for them. Go work somewhere else where they'll give you a better deal. Nothing is forcing ANYONE to work for Verizon!
The "SCABS" are people who are FORCED to do YOUR work. They don't want to be there any more than your morons do but if they don't, then they get fired but I guess that's OK with the union mentality. As long as I'm ok, it doesn't matter if someone else gets fired for being a SCAB! Wow, what a lower form of mentality. Union bosses are NO DIFFERENT than the VZ big whigs. They go back to their expensive homes and cars while the idiots harass decent people.
Get a life people. I've worked for over 25 years and nobody gave me a contract or guaranteed work. Why are you so special? Go work somewhere else. Easy solution and then you don't have to be mad any more.
THE COMPANY PLANTS ARE ALL OVER THE PRO UNION POSTS ON THIS BOARD!!!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CWA & IBEW
Last strike the union pulled you off days before a hurricane, now they send you back once things are falling apart. Lowell is a star compared to your guy.
Union workers pay about 900 a year for Healthcare now... I'm not sure about family coverage premium
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Union workers pay virtually ZERO for healthcare, the rest of the worlds workers takes part of the cost. Union is fighting for it's own GREEDY existence. You jokers need to drop your own greed.......
Mgq ... I know you don't want to be doing EWA duty. Look at it this way, the hotel picketing means the company is merely paying you to move your bags from one hotel to another instead of doing pesky repairs. These guys are actually doing you a favor. No need to break a nail today.
@H72oLX2-mgq I totally agree with you. But that shill alert dic---ad might come again. What a joke.
All you're doing in reinforcing the fact that you are all thugs! again those people at the hotels are your co workers, just trying to do something that they were forced to do. I understand you want to fight for some things but all the bulls***t is not helping. The EWA's are in a tough position but you don't care.
Also I know you keep saying " VZ is making billions" I know that and I'm glad they are, without the money we would have no job, no benefits at all, no pension and no 401K. In fact there are hundreds of other 401K's out there that depend on VZ and other companies to make a profit so that 401's grow in value.
Wake up and get your asses back to work!
I have been on both sides,now management. I can tell you one thing the strike caught the company off guard, now that you have taken effect your upper union will meet tomorrow and agree to go back under old contract. And I thought I was the one being thrown under the bus. Think about it?
@cke makes one good point. Why can't the strikers look more professional instead of looking like slobs?
Does not matter, you will still lose
Whoever said that the truth is warm and comfy? The truth usually breaks previously held convictions or illusions and feels like a gut punch when spoken.
the way it is..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeKidp-iWo
Cannot see the forest through the trees.
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"Keep people away from the wireless stores"
Yeah, right. A bunch of slobs with smelly t-shirts and a hot dog grill are going to keep customers away. Post something useful, your picketing is useless. The Union and the Corp are the only things that matter.
@H72oLX2 Amen! To all my Union Strong brothers and sisters, we HAVE TO keep up the pressure until there is a fair contract.
Yep. Keep disturbing middle class families and non Vz workers staying at those hotels. The very middle class you claim to care about.