Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

Tentative agreement reached. 11.2 % increase!!!

I should have been CEO! I would have fired every man in the company and promoted every woman because they have a v@g!na !!

Nice try troll. Nothing was given away. They were only discussing pay raises and bumps in medical insurance payments, and length of contract. Raises are 2.5% 2.5% 2.5% and 3% in the last year. Small increase in medical.

Does anyone know what or what was taken away in the new contract extension

Millionaire yes 2gfx , I doubt anyone I know is a billionaire. The people I hang with don't flaunt it so who knows how much they really have?

Who needs a bonus? We are all billionaires. Never again should I see an EISP post either. UNION STRONG YEE HAW!

Not a fan of one off bonuses.

Would prefer the longer-term benefit of a better raise than the instant gratification of a one-time bonus.

Maybe a signing bonus when ratified?

My guess about why the contract was negotiated a year early is the old management is out new improved management in. Clean slate, bad news out . Years of lack luster business decisions. In the past when contracts were negotiated early business improved.

For Sale LMFAO. Who has that much capital. Likely no one other than some character in some troll's fantasy world. This is all about a timely uninterrupted 5G build. It seems very much like the 2003 contract for the Fios jumpstart. There is a lot of money to be made over the coming years. Let the build begin.

2MKQ speaks the truth! And you know what happens next? Money! Huge, steaming, unholy, piles of money! Piles and piles of money!

No, @2ywj, you silly anti-Union troll.

Businesses hate uncertainty, especially when there’s a large project ahead.

This is choreographed in nearly the same manner, early extension and all, as happened before our last major project loomed.

Just history repeating itself.

Why did the company want to settle this a year before the contract expired, are we for sale ?

After reading so much on this site about the worry and stress of being laid off, I realize how fortunate I have been to have a union job at VZ. I have my 30 years, and will work for a few more, without any thought whatsoever about being laid off, and now there is at least 5 more years added onto it.

VZ Wireless workers really blew it in the beginning, now it’s too late to join us.

You might have had a chance to be included way back when, but that ship has sailed.

I don’t see many posts about how stupid it is to be in a union. What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue?

A.G. Bell! Congrats on the 30! Rumors abound that the new contract includes a bump in the pension band! CWA Brother!

@AGBell: I hear ya. The gifts are pretty dismal. Congrats on your 30.

The (hopefully) nice 4 year extension is sure going to make my 30th anniversary tomorrow all the sweeter!!!

Beats the crap out of the gifts they offer...

I'm glad not to have to do EWA again. I'm Band 5 so it was really just a gigantic pain in the @ss for me. Got a little bit of compensation after the fact but not nearly enough to make the whole exercise personally worth it for me.

I'm glad the union has got a contract they are happy with (after two EWA tours, I have mad respect for the work you guys do).

Glad the customers and employees will not get dragged through another strike.

This is a win-win-win.

I, like many others, had planned on retiring in a year, just before the contract expired. Now the possibility exists that I may put it off until a later date. In any case, my retirement is at least guaranteed to be as good as I planned, now maybe even better.

This also guarantees several of my co-workers that they will be guaranteed to get their magic 30 year service date, and I’m very happy for them.

UNION TROLL! CHUMP! I'M MAD SO I AM GOING TO WRITE A RAMBLING RESPONSE.

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah contract.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah everyone who is not union is a loser and deserves to be unemployed.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah every union member will retire a multi millionaire with millions in pensions payments forever. Plus we get paid millions to pull wires.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah even though I am a super happy union employee who makes millions I keep asking for an EISP until I am blue in the face because I lie.

All trolls cut it out.

It's a win win

It's nice the union gets a 5 year contract

no one loses

Thanks for turning this into an I am the biggest a--hole contest to the nay sayers and trolls. Congratulations: as with the way of our country these days You're all winners!!!

All all trolls on both sides. Cut it out.

It is nice to see both sides compromised and came to agreement.

No EWA,

No strikes lines.

No being away from family.

No losing pay.

Find out the details later, but this is nice.

@1dsi

The 3 eyed raven saw an eisp. Winter is coming...and so is a 4th quarter eisp!

NO COLLUSION WHATSOEVER

@1bia and, you too, @1wzp, try to follow, as what I’m about to ask gets real confusing, like one of those, “There's two trains traveling at...” such and such a speed problems that used to confound you so badly in grammar school (and high school, and coll..., oh forget it, that’s enough benefit of the doubt).

Here’s the question.

I will sell you a dime for 6 cents, and as many times as you like. Do you want the deal?

C’mon dude? Why the puzzled, head-tilted-to-one-side confused dog expression? PLEASE! This is easy stuff. Of forget it. Turn Rush back on.

There is zero doubt in my mind that @1wzp and @1bia is the same intellectually-challenged individual in terms of economics.

Each of his propositions more ignorant than the previous.

It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

Your propositions are asinine, though worthy of am political radio, of which I have no doubt you are a fan.

Enjoy your pillow, your gold retirement investments, and your no salt water softener you dupe.

@1bia you seem simple minded. I am not a previous poster yet I do celebrate obviously possibly prematurely since all facts are not yet certain the next 5 years of secure well compensated employment with a nice level of continued K plan and pension accrual. This will superfund my retirement to greater levels than I had planned(I was considering retirement this year but feel I am little to young as I started at a young age). I see no problem paying the pittance I have throughout my career for quality representation. I would not ever want to work in an open shop. It leads to a lot of leeches who want the benefits of representation yet do not wish to tow the line. There is no place for the open shop other than the third world or the south of this country. That is why they live a substandard existence and fight amongst themselves for the crumbs. I am sure some "better men" than I may have earned and accrued more career wise but as a percent of the population I doubt more than 5 or 10 % have. So I figure better than 9 out of 10 isn't to bad (I am fairly certain of the statistic based on IRS income data). I doubt seriously that you have earned more or accrued nearly what I have in my represented position, particularly if the small amount paid to be represented seems like such a burden on your tiny budget.

I and many of my colleagues have absolutely zero concern about money or the ability to retire. The feeling is hard to explain it just opens so many doors being free from such things. It enables you to explore hobbies, to travel and enjoy life at a level many cannot due to there life circumstances such as insecure employment or low pay, poor or expensive healthcare, etc. things my representation combated against. So yes even the status quo I as well as many will celebrate. The right to work is just a grifters pitch to work for less.

Hahaha, @1bia, you’re such a tool.

1st off, Right to Work equals Right to Slave.

2nd off, if the “status quo” you’re referring to is a superior level of job security, an additional advocate in my corner if I feel I’m being targeted or treated unfairly, and a better salary than those doing somewhat identical work for other outfits unrepeesented then, yes, I willingly embrace the “status quo”.

@1bia, let me ask you a question?

If you invested 2% of your base salary knowing the immediate payoff would be 3% of your original base salary, would you not? It’s a no-brainer. @1bia, the payoffs even better, but I wanted to state it simply enough so that you might grasp it, and that’s in addition to the benefits I mentioned previously

Let me get this straight, you are all excited about paying a decent amount of money per year to a Union, and the result of that investment is status quo? Not saying that a contract extension isn’t a good thing for the workers, but it seems as though you’re now just paying the Union for the right to work.

@1hlc, give it up already troll.

Desperately trying to find that dark cloud within the silver lining.

You can’t live a positive life with a negative mind.

You ever stop to think that maybe the CEOs a stand-up, fair person, or are you too jaded and suspicious troll.

“2% pay raise and 3% increase in health premium. S---ers” - @1wzp

A 2% pay raise is in the $30 to $ $40 dollar a week range for many. No great, but something.

A 3% increase in health care premiums, $1.50/wk.

What is your point?

Interesting that we now have an almost assured extension just prior to the new CEO ( Hans ) taking the reins. Lot of ways to read this but one is that the company is not concerned about the contract or Union as many of them may be spun off into a separate company that is entirely away from Verizon. This all within the next two years.

The good news is you all have a really good job until 2023. The bad news is for those continually wishing for an EISP. It’s quite clear by this extension that the company needs its union labor force so good luck with that EISP

2% pay raise and 3% increase in health premium. S---ers

Who’s Smh?

Smh, anonymity really brings out the worst in people. Congrats to the union members, many of us envy the ability to have five years guaranteed jobs. I do expect drastic changes after the five years to hit with Hans going hell bent for 5G. Good luck to all, regardless, the world could use a little more civility especially amongst co-workers

@iyqr Yeah like when they thought they could lay members off and they where forced to make all the members whole with back, pay pension, seniority and work location etc. Yeah those lawyers really advised them well. Sometimes contractual language is pretty damn well ironclad you jealous chump.

There is no such thing as a iron clad contract. VZW has floors of lawyers who will find and exploit the loop holes they find in the contract to the Companies benefit.