Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

So I am new to all of this strike stuff

"Why is it that union people can not show up to work and not get fired for it, yet most people have to show up to work or they will get fired? What makes them so special? Why are they a special group over a majority of the rest of Americans?" (This is what my 16-year old son asked me last night after hearing about this strike school. Wonder how union employees who are on strike answer this question when their kids ask it. There is a huge difference between "standing up for your rights" and "demanding extras and guarantees". To most Americans, all of you on strike look greedy, ungrateful and downright entitled. Time to become adults folks and live in the real world.)

I am not a scab, although I have one from a cut I got last week while working (ironically), not associated at all with this Verizon strike and am just an observer who happens to notice absurdity when I see it happen.

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Post ID: @OP+HB9dfta

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Teach your son now, Unions are going down. You need to go to work everyday and make money.

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Post ID: @kaq+HB9dfta

Beacause these f---ing whales are living in the past where they were supposedly relevant.

Union Logic : "You made a promise back then so it must last forever even though i'm doing worse work. Hur hur hur".

F---ing whales.

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Post ID: @uae+HB9dfta

The problem is that union workers on this instance are not asking to get more. they were hired under certain promises otherwise they would of chose a different job. Verizon wants to take away most of those promises by shifting them to work away from their families, freeze their pensions, cut their healthcare, in an environment where Verizon is earning more money than they ever did. If you had given your company you work for all that you had for so many years, and at time of most success they want to cut your benefits, don't you wish you had a voice to bargain for you? Well that voice is called a UNION! If you work for a fortune 500 company you should fight for a voice! I'm not saying all businesses need unions, but the biggest do. If you cry about why you can get fired on the spot, then question yourself why.

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Post ID: @koe+HB9dfta

Horseshit

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Post ID: @nij+HB9dfta

HB9dfta-lri

Quit your crying and cross then. Nobody is making you stay out. And I don't care if the union leaders are getting paid, they are working on our behalf. So just stop being "senseless" as you call it and go back to work already.

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Post ID: @fzl+HB9dfta

Get out of here Scabby you Moron.

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Post ID: @fhk+HB9dfta

Tell your son to get a business degree and start his own company. When there are no jobs create some to many people are forgetting what America is all about. Land of the free and the home of the brave stop waiting for a hand out and make your own way and do not tell me it cannot be done people are doing it everyday

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Post ID: @iyf+HB9dfta

You all are so senseless. After all its our lose. Union leaders are getting paid weekly. We are the ones suffering with no jobs, no money, no future, no direction. I pity everyone for being so naive about all this. Nothing will change as these leaders won't let things change for good. And it's true on both ends.

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Post ID: @lri+HB9dfta

How do all these people, who claim they are not affiliated with Verizon and just outside observers, find their way to this site? TROLL

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Post ID: @ipz+HB9dfta

I am not sure where you get your information from just on your first statement shows your ignorance. If I don't show up for work I get fired. I myself have called out sick 3 times in over 20 years, I challenge you to compare your sick time records. You have been trained to believe you have no rights and except less for more production under the auspices that they are doing you a favor hiring you. Have pride in your self and put more value in your own sacrifices.

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Post ID: @cpo+HB9dfta

Because your not from the northeast

Verizon wants to focus on northeastwireline with down south labor

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Post ID: @ewj+HB9dfta

Hopefully in the future your son can ask a question that makes sense.

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Post ID: @qeb+HB9dfta

This union wife supports all of you 😊

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Post ID: @wsd+HB9dfta

Kelly Ripa didn't show up for a work because her cohost got a better job and millions of Americans applauded her. 39k middle class folks don't show up for work to try and preserve good middle class jobs and try to prevent further outsourcing. And, we get barely any reaction from mainstream media and negativity from internet trolls!!!

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Post ID: @lnk+HB9dfta

Really? You need to educate yourself dad about unions. Tell your son like I told my daughter that if these companies keep sending jobs off shore the only jobs will be in the medical field or retail. Be nice for our kids and grandkids to have choices of careers wouldn't it?

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Post ID: @zqx+HB9dfta

Everyone has a right to organize

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Post ID: @zrg+HB9dfta

Tell him that if we don't win then he's going to spend a fortune on college just to find out the only jobs are at Walmart.

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Post ID: @tjl+HB9dfta

Tell your son, this is labor law.

The union has a right to strike, and the company has a right to hire temporary workers.

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Post ID: @pfi+HB9dfta

What you are seeing is a workforce willing to leave, becasue the company is over charging the customer and sending the jobs over seas to other countries... So the union members dont like that, and are willing to give up their jobs for the cause of American Jobs.

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Post ID: @krg+HB9dfta

Tell your son. The folks on strike are fighting to keep jobs in the United States. They are not asking for any more then they get now. they are not just going to lay down and accept that a company that rakes in billions can send their jobs overseas.

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Post ID: @vja+HB9dfta

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