Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

“There’s more to running a network than hiring a few replacement workers and running them through school,” Mr. Keefe said.

Mr. Keefe said that it was quite rare for a strike in the telecom industry to have a significant economic impact on the target company, as opposed to a public relations impact. But, he said, Verizon may have been vulnerable because so few of its replacement workers, typically managers, had experience with installations.

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"If Altice had bought FiOS that is what you would be worth in their mind."

LOL. It doesn't matter what's in one's mind. Rest assured that former Cablevision's techs under Altice are making way more than $15/hr...easily double that amount.

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Post ID: @hld+HFQoL0K

From the same NY Times article "The company’s real miscalculation may have been its assessment of the unions’ ability to hold out."

I think $42 per hour is fair.

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Bottom line is that union employees are low class and are lucky they are paid more than $15 hour. If Altice had bought FiOS that is what you would be worth in their mind.

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Post ID: @skc+HFQoL0K

We tried to warn them...

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