Hope you and your family get cancer, diabetes and or break a leg!!! You have great insurance but for some reason your demanding better! Verizon deserves to fire you ! Best, Verizon Director

To be clear, I am a non-union craft employee. I have no heart-burn with the CWA or any union; I just choose to be non-union. This is a good contract and if you are Inside Plant or a support group you really need to consider crossing and coming back... — read more 

foreign country. I have already seen the trend where full time employees are hired just for few months and dumped like contractors by major companies. Life, liberty, future financial security is more important than anything else. I am a management... — read more 

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/9802890 Read it and weep Verizon. Hopefully this time the people win!

Those that are putting the Importance of the Union brotherhood above the safety, health and welfare of their families is astonishing. And don't give me the "Solidarity" and "we're winning this thing" crap. Benefits are toast at the end of the day... — read more 

E, W, A, rat, rat What is for Dinner Tonight? Rat soup from WaWa!

They are asking their members to send back the offer details Verizon is mailing to the members homes. Why? They know that there is no reason for their members to be out on the street for 3 weeks. The company has conceded on almost every issue. Is it... — read more 

That's the sound of the last seconds of your healthcare ticking away. Goodbye reasonable deductibles... hello sticker shock. Goodbye capable PPO and HMO doctors... hello free clinic doctors from India. Goodbye well priced prescriptions...hello... — read more 

When they sell wireline the proverbial S**t will hit the fan because the buyer could care less about a union.

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said in a blog post that wire-line revenues accounted for just under 30 percent of Verizon's revenues in 2015 but only about 7 percent of its operating income, or profits. The company earned $33.1 billion in operating income... — read more 

It's kind of how I feel about some teachers union and the one that I'm particularly thinking about is the Chicago Teacher's union, who hold the city ransom knowing that Obama has to win his home state and city and it looks bad when it's in chaos so... — read more 

On a rainy night On the cusp of May Little scabby's tucked in They dred the next day The union will strike Hold the line they will shout The union is pitching Verizon struck out! Good Night Scabs

This "last, best and final offer" doesn't mean they can just apply it next week. Luckily unions in the past have fought for the rights we have now. It's time for us to fight. Trust what the union is doing. They know what they are doing. This IS NOT... — read more 

https://www.massnurses.org/labor-action/labor-education-resources/negotiations/p/openItem/1205

F'ing killing it every single day on our workload. Locates done through next Wednesday, TOAST audit in progress, CCR's...what CCR's, we already knocked them all out. What the hell do you union guys even do on a day-to-day basis? Jerk each other off I... — read more 

Call local 1101 hot line and listen to how the union leadership is handling this situation, it's disgusting! Call 212.633.6755 hit option 8 I would never hitch my future to this guy,

Smoke em if you got em boys... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kerUbfOQTW0

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Get to bed early tonight, make your calls home, and hear how things are doing at home without you. Kids got to be getting taller while your away. Time you'll never get back. How's the wife holding up? Oh well, tell me how great it is in that hotel... — read more 

4/28: VZ best and final offer 4/29: CWA counter, VZ says refer to best and final offer 4/29: VZ & CWA agree to meet 5/2 to discuss acceptance or rejection of best and final offer 5/1: CWA loses insurance&benefits, have to reapply unless contract is... — read more 

Turn on the lights! Somebody's UGLY! https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-news-wire/PRNews_20160429DC85683/cwa-launches-verizongreedcom-as-verizon-moves-to-cut-off-benefits-for-100k-workers-family-members.html

Verizon: Network sabotage during strike disrupted thousands of customers, Union blames Verizon for failing to maintain network, and strike continues. Somehow the Xbox came down and all the wires got chewed by a squirrel, to the point that none where... — read more 

As predicted by the union letter posted on Joe Shmuks awhile ago, it looks like the strike will be EPIC. My brother has worked strike duty (management filling in for union) for both AT&T & Verizon and said he had never seen a "Last Best Offer" -- the... — read more 

Ya heard it here first boys. I won't name my source but it came from the rank and file and it's happening. All but certain, and I for one am very glad. I'll just look for another job within the next 2 years

Regional Bargaining Report # 66 Friday, April 29, 2016 While the CWA Mid Atlantic Bargaining Committee was meeting with the company this morning questioning the Company’s latest proposal, CWA members across the region were receiving overnight... — read more 

PITTSBURGH (PAI) - Allegheny Technologies' long lockout of its Steelworkers nationwide ended March 14 with a big union win. Workers returned to their jobs under the new 4-year pact, which they ratified by a 5-to-1 ratio days before. The firm, which... — read more 

Not getting into right or wrong on either side but as a compassionate human I hope nothing happens to anybody when the medical and life insurance expire. COBRA is not an option for most as it's around 1200-1500 for a family of 4 per month. A car... — read more 

CWA Local 2204 Many of you have asked why we didn't take the deal offered from the company yesterday. The following is the reason. It is a list of bullet points put together by the bargaining team. Specifics from yesterday's Proposal · Job Security... — read more 

Hold that Line....United we will stand....and, we will Rise...United!

Is a striking or locked-out employee still considered an employee? A: Yes. Although employees are not working and are not entitled to pay, they are still considered employees and cannot be terminated simply because of being on strike or locked out... — read more 

The poster formerly known as Squirrel Force Five will now be known as Squirrel Force Four, as sadly our fifth member decided to up and cross the picket line. As a result of us not wanting to dip into the strike fund that you guys built, cost reducing... — read more