Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

Verizon / Philippines Call Centers

Over the course of a four-day visit to the Philippines this week, four representatives of CWA who are on strike discovered that the extent to which Verizon is offshoring work is far beyond what has previously been reported and what the company publicly has claimed.

Verizon is offshoring customer service calls to numerous call centers in the Philippines, where workers are paid just $1.78 an hour and forced to work overtime without compensation.

Terrified that the public might find out about what has happened to the good middle-class jobs the company has shipped overseas, Verizon sent private armed security forces after peaceful CWA representatives and called in a SWAT team armed with automatic weapons.

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The Mutha Fukin (CW)A Team is coming for ya

https://youtu.be/Cn6kEsloMdE

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Post ID: @3jpb+Hne3Ngw

The Mutha Fukin (CW)A Team is coming for ya

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Post ID: @3wca+Hne3Ngw

LOL, peaceful CWA representatives

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Post ID: @1pby+Hne3Ngw

I just have one question about this. Were the yard signs hand delivered to the secret hiding place in the Philippines or will they be shipped?

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Post ID: @1sxe+Hne3Ngw

They discovered a call center in the Philippines that everybody in the company and industry knew was there. It wasn't a secret. Companies have been offshoring call centers since at least the 1980s - I remember calling American Express in the late 80s and talking to someone in Singapore. The VZ offshoring was not "discovered", it has always been common knowledge. Companies do it all the time. "Discovering" the call center is the equivalent of discovering that the sun rises in the morning. Talk about yellow journalism. Sheesh.

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Post ID: @1jjw+Hne3Ngw

Are lies really the best you jackasses can do?

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Post ID: @1qpj+Hne3Ngw

Welcome to de pill-a-peens. I love you no sh^t Joe! You take me stateside? Ju wan to puck my muh-der? She's a birgin.

The minute I hear a non American sounding voice I immediately ask to be transferred to the US.

They should outsource the executive wing to the monkey house in the Central Park Zoo,

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Post ID: @1vpl+Hne3Ngw

To the people in this country defending slave wages in other countries, be careful what you wish for, you might just get it yourself. We are stuck in a global economy remember, one where US citizens now have to compete with other country's slave labor wages? You wanted your race to the bottom, well now you have it. Enjoy no more middle class and seeing America being dismantled and turned into a 3rd world hell hole.

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Post ID: @gkn+Hne3Ngw

Breaking news. Cwa leadership discovers that fire is hot

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Post ID: @gpe+Hne3Ngw

Why wouldn't Verizon want to do business in the Philippines. There #1 export is females. Human trafficking and sex slaves galore and cheap. Verizon does not care about its own employees or the United States. They like criminals just look at the replacements they hire. They even had Jerry Sandusky as man of the year a few months before he was outed. It's there style.

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Post ID: @dvu+Hne3Ngw

"The average salary in the Philippines being $11,959.56 per year. The median salary in the Philippines is about $7,660.8 per year.

The minimum wage for the Philippines is $1 per day in the non-plantation agricultural sector for the countryside. When working in the national capital, the minimum wage increases to about $2 per day. Unfortunately, when these minimum wages per day are quote for the non-agricultural sector, the agriculture wages are probably much lower and calculated based on the crop."

Seems like $1.78/hour is not bad for those call center employees. If they work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, they can make about $6700 a year which is very close to the median salary. I don't know what Union is excited about.

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Post ID: @trv+Hne3Ngw

We also landed on the moon... Nothing new to report here.

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Post ID: @yog+Hne3Ngw

Cwa didn't discover jack sh--. We already knew who VZ contracts to.

Surprised Union folk are putting up with this circus. Your unions are run by clowns.

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Post ID: @rua+Hne3Ngw

Hello cherry boy Lowell, me love you long time. I have you put call center here for the ugly ones. Hee hee.

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Post ID: @utk+Hne3Ngw

How is this a cover up? It was already known that VZ uses call center services in the Phillipines. Plus, it's not a VZ facility. It's a contractor and I bet that the building is a call center for many companies and is not solely for VZ. Why is anyone shocked that the owner didn't want the CWA on the property?

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Post ID: @drm+Hne3Ngw

Two Videos from the Philippines (Police in full gear, automatic guns, etc…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=JtXNzoLJg0Q

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI7Hq31t1UY

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