Want a good idea of what kind of actions caused things like the QAR? Customer called into Verizon and after tracing the job and location, got a hold of the local manager in charge of two Manhattan techs. The customer had taken video (from her second... — read more 

You should see their faces it takes me 5 minutes to fix the troubles. I'm not just talking about the hillbilly scabs. Managers are the worst offenders and blatant flaggers. Managers give less of a f--- than the meth head scabs who think they have a... — read more 

Read the whole contract. Verizon got everything they wanted. Higher medical costs. No pension or medical for new hires when they retire. They can still contract pole work and customer service. They can still transfer techs anywhere in state. Limited... — read more 

as a result of being forced to do a job that they were not hired to do? 2019 will be here before you know it and the next strike will more than likely last at least twice as long. Don't get rid of those boots and make sure to keep that chiropractor... — read more 

filled with propagandist comments that should never have been released for posting on an intra company web page. I find it absolutely incredible that after being $hit on for 7 straight weeks, some of these VZ Teamers are still drinking and passing... — read more 

They found by providing these "breakfast" essentials directly to the workers vehicles each morning, it saves approx 45mins to 1.5hrs of wasted time and gets the worker to the job quicker.

and to all the stockholder trolls on here who shot themselves in the foot. Lesson Learned. "By Malathi Nayak NEW YORK (Reuters) - The seven-week strike by Verizon Communications Inc's (VZ.N) wireline workers will hurt the company's second-quarter... — read more 

Now that the strike is over IT can go back to being massively racist. Shankar and his almost all Indian male direct reports and their Indian male reports can finish the ethnic cleansing that started when he became CIO. The only qualifications you... — read more 

As long as our politicians ignore corporate corruption, allow tax havens (Verizon has a -2% tax rate) and tax inversions, and allow jobs to be shipped overseas or replaced by H1B visas, this is where our country is heading:... — read more 

Final Act for screwing the Membership over ...... Some Locals allow voting at the Hall, by mail, by proxy or at ratification meeting (where the contract is explain then you must quickly vote). Where is an independent auditor? Where is the NLRB... — read more 

Anyone hearing this?

No pay raise for you! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-06/ge-studies-scrapping-annual-raise-in-nod-to-shifting-priorities

What was the point of all these union bargaining committees for the past year? If he can make a closed door deal with VZ, without any other input, doesnt make them pretty much toy soldiers?..lol...Of course it does! I would be embarrassed to be a... — read more 

Show yourself jerkoff, come on bitch business as usual MY ass Where u at? Busy gettimg RIFED or what????

What's left of engineering and IT will be gone and consolidation will end many supervisor positions in most other areas. 2nd RIF scheduled for October.

How old of a greedy bastard is he anyway? Country meadows senior living home can only be so expensive, any idea why a 80 year old dude needs 18 million to live every year?

Here's what the EWA kids will be singing in a few years as they group up. When the cat's away, the mice will play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrWIlRC-hdc

I'm a 50+ unix/linux/windows sysadmin in the nyc metro area. Ive heard you can survive by doing consultant/contract work. My wife works so I have benefits. Does anyone know how consultant/contractor market is in nyc area (live in NJ) or NJ area ?... — read more 

Union workers should be happy they have jobs. By the end of this contract they will be working for another company and wishing they were working for Verizon.

We get 25% off plans. No wonder many people on wireline side don't even have Verizon for cell phone service! CWA should of negotiated free cell phone service and free FiOS for wireline employees!

Just a reminder all of you scabs and rumor spreaders. GO F--- YOURSELF.

Go away toad! Try putting some curry on top of your next $hit sandwich, that's how VZ will be serving it to you when you're shipped to India.

I hear the EWA's had it good Verizon having stuff catered in and everything Guess us obese Union folk just have to suffer!

The only thing they seem to do well anymore in landline is threaten and harass employees. Unlimited resources for that. Everything else they are pathetic. Condition of plant pathetic. Customer service pathetic.

The Indians (Kumar & Kumar) who made this customer service/repair/dispatch/tech software need to come and take some calls to see how horrid the software really is. They trying to integrate everything into it and it is breaking everything and slow and... — read more 

Why do we (the membership) not buy control of the landline division? We are the one's who know how to properly maintain it and we are also the one's who would be able to make it most profitable. Buy it, rename it, get it in order and then sell it, so... — read more 

Please think long and hard before voting yes. Voting yes will be the end of all those hired after 2003. Come 2019, Verizon will not sign another deal until all security is off the table and this is when the union will be broken. It is absolutely... — read more 

Im sure all of us who were on strike had nicknames for the scabs pulling out in OUR trucks... besides Hicksville did anyone else notice a plethora of kumar and kumars riding together???

Do nothing Dunn and clean the dribble off your face Mike need to go,

Phones are all off. VZ won't be calling me in for any emergencies, call a scab!

Lets make a list of teams (like some operations teams) that we really coukd do without? Also unnecessary individual positions...how many can we list!

IT wanted to lay him off. However business created a director position to save this guy. Though it is a down grade when will landline unit realize it has too much management overheads?

I have always been a blue collar worker, the business world never appealed to me. Although I do not particularly like yuppies, as a worker in NYC, I was very angry at Ward Churchill for calling American white collar workers "Little Eichmanns" after... — read more 

Have you all found jobs? What were you're best online resources to use? Are you hearing "overqualified" a lot? Thinking about all of you.

Short version here (1 min): https://streamable.com/6cdq Long Version here (8 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ertArCkol4A

THE VOTE HAS TO BE NO!!! I know toad, "you can't afford to say no."