Verizon employees may soon strike. Thousands of workers congregated at Verizon’s headquarters in lower Manhattan yesterday, holding signs and threatening to start a strike on August 3rd, if both sides don’t reach an agreement. Negotiations between the telecommunications giant and the dissatisfied unions (who represent 65,000 workers) hav been pretty slow.
Employees’ contracts are up in about a week and many of their grievances relate to the usual sources of strike-starting-ire: wages and healthcare benefits. But there’s another major issue at the heart of this scuffle: outsourcing. The unions, obviously, are against it. But Verizon says it relies on outsourcing because it affords the company the flexibility to start new projects quickly and efficiently.
From the New York Times:
- Joe Connolly, president of Local 1101 of the C.W.A., said that the union was pushing for a 5 percent annual wage increase, larger pensions and expanded medical benefits. ‘Right now, employees have to make a choice: Are they going to eat or get benefits?’ Mr. Connolly said.
- In light of the slow pace of negotiations, a strike was likely, he said. ‘There’s been nothing resolved on any level at this point.’
Read the rest of the article here.
Married to Verizon 4 months ago
Whew… here we go again. Being married to a verizon union employee, the stress in our home is a 10. Not that we haven’t endured many other past contract negotiations but it never ceases to cause a lot of stress in our home.
Meanwhile, the top executives received millions in compensation. Not fair, but then again that’s life. Thankfully, the union has always come through.
Sterling Moses 4 months ago
Executives in almost all companies make a bucket load, so that is a bad argument. Sure the stress maybe a 10 in union homes, but the same also exists for homes that do not belong to any unions. As for VZ employees, they do not have any pensions or any guarantees to any 5% pay increase, and on an anual basis their medical benefits take a hit. Still you don’t see VZ employees complaining and griping, so why are the unions being such cry babies?
Union=Protection 4 months ago
“Still you don’t see VZ employees complaining and griping…” Obviously you don’t know the ladder. Its the employees who complain to the union, the union makes a stand for the techs. I would learn a little more about unions before making a statement like that.
Kevin Plunkett 4 months ago
Sterling Moses is talking about the management employees who are not unionized. The management employees at verizon have to pay half of their medical coverage while Union workers pay nothing! The verizon Unions have 100% medical and dental coverage paid for by Verizon. And yes Executives make millions because they worked their way through education and dedication to their jobs. If only union works worked as hard as they do, maybe we wouldn’t be fighting over how much they get paid because the company would be doing much better and would be able to afford to pay them better. Also, as Sterling mentioned before the management employees take benifit hits every year. Including the loss of Pensions which oh by the way THE UNION WORKERS STILL GET. Tell me how thats fair! The Unions should be lucky they even still have a contract with Verizon.
gerardo quinones 4 months ago
ur an asshole
Jay 4 months ago
Call him what you want, but he speaks the truth!
Kaci 4 months ago
I am a union worker for Verizon and I have to pay 50% of my benefits. So I will complain about pay and benefits because paying thousands of dollars a year for my benefits makes my paycheck take a big hit. So before you start running your mouth know the damn facts.
Wbblack 4 months ago
The managers should have fought when Ivan the Terrible took their benefits and pensions. You rolled over. The economy has been bankrupted by the very same sociopath CEO’s and Wall Street scum that you defend and seem to admire. I’m educated and I don’t earn millions and I shouldn’t. Nobody should earn millions when there are billions of people living in poverty. You’re on the wrong side. I feel sorry for you.
pcr 3 months ago
How could we have fought back? I’ve got 10 years in VZ management and would love to have union protection.
Jay 4 months ago
Kevin, take a close look at your statement, do you really believe that if “the union would work as hard as the executives” (as you say, which is by the way your opinion, and I don’t know what your basing this on) and the company was far more profitable, they would turn around and say let’s pay our employee’s better! Now think Kevin was that an intelligent statement. I hope you were kidding. Tell me you had a few drinks before you made this post.
Lets go a bit deeper. You want to know how it’s fair that union workers still get a pension, and management does not. Well…….it’s not Kevin, but you should be asking Verizon that question. The Union did not take away you benefits, the company did. So your are clearly a bit angry as I gathered from reading your post, and as well you should be. However it is misplaced. You have this perception that “If I can’t have it, nobody can” and that is the demeanor of a child. Do not begrudge us for fighting for what we still have. I sympathize for you, but at some point you chose to become management, or chose to start as one, and we all live with the consequences of our choices.
rr 4 months ago
Very Good Jay, and here are some more facts about our pension. Verizon stopped funding our pension fund in 1986. There is 9 Billion dollars in the fund and it grew last year buy $250 million. The Union Pension fund is 127% over funded. There is enough to cover all Union Memebers for the next century. And we have worked hard for it and have sacrificed on the picket line to keep it, where were you Kevin? And did you know that Verizon Executives base their bonus on company profit and the profit made from our pension fund. Let me say this Kevin, you and all management should be mad as hell the company did that to you. Verizon has money don’t let them brainwash. Join the fight!
Ted 4 months ago
get a life
1104wife 4 months ago
I’m stressed, very stressed. My husband seems to think we have nothing to worry about and within the next couple of weeks all will be resolved. I have been the wife of a verizon employee far too long to know that Verizon has NO HEART !!!! Antything can happen!!
fred 4 months ago
You’re stressed because your husband might not have a job because he voluntarily chooses not to go to the one that he has yet the company has no heart?
Well, lady, your husband has no head!
He needs to do whatever he needs to do to take care of his family… and that means earning a living!
Union employees get much more than management employees ever got at Verizon… and yet they still complain!
In this day and age, he should be lucky he’s got a damn job, much less one where he’s fairly well paid for what he does!
rr 4 months ago
Dear fred,
Once again here are more words from the little girls of the world. Grow a set of balls fred and stand up for something. Its guy like you that say you should be glad you have a job. You will bend over for anything won’t you fred. And yes dear you should be afraid of a heartless Verizon. Corporate greed is on the rise and all Americans suffer and its cowards like fred who make it possible. We as a union stand together, its guys like you who run for the lip gloss at the first site of confrontation. Fred you need to open your eyes and watch the news. And fred do me a favor, bite me!
fred 4 months ago
nice.
instead of intelligently voicing your ideas,and respecting the opinions of others, as well as their right to express those opinions, you immediately resort to personal attacks.
rr 4 months ago
Well Fred sorry I hurt your feelings, but to bad.
You just told that nice stressed out lady that her husband had no head and all she was doing was was bloging her feelings. I would consider that a personal attack, wouldn’t you say so Fred. And then you cry when someone attacks you verbally.
You are a little girl.
Jay 4 months ago
Dear Fred, read my post to Kevin, just up a few. This pertains to you as well. By the way Fred, when we fight for what the company has taken from you, you call it complaining. Telling someone their husband has no head is a personal attack, as well as an un-intelligent remark. It appears you have a very distorted view of what is going on here.
Verizon Wife 4 months ago
Its clear you have no heart either! This woman is worried about a loss of income, and the best you have to say is bashing her husband? What a jerk! Well I have something to say, Don’t worry dear, our husbands will do just fine. Fred is just jealous.
rob O 4 months ago
you should all be fight for your pay and benifits. Instend of hoping and being glad if the union does not.You are fighting the wrong direction.If we lose them do you really think management and non-union work will get them back ?You have just set the bar even lower.You should all be fighting for youselfs.Instend of calling us cry-babies.Unions are the flagship for jobs in each of there respected indistries.some one has to point this out to you is really amazing. They have you fooled.
ex-employee 4 months ago
Stop your whining.. when I left verizon in 2001, i was making $65,000 per year for sitting on my ass and doing nothing. the benefits were top-notch.
nobody who has ever worked for verizon was overworked or underpaid. by the way, didn’t the union tell us to vote for clinton who signed NAFTA and started the exodus of jobs out of the country?
current employee 4 months ago
Why are you an Ex-employee? Get fired? Union couldn’t save you? If you were sitting on your ass doing nothing you simply weren’t doing your job!!!!!!!!!! If it wasn’t for us union workers WORKING our asses off the Fat Cats like Ivan would be making all that money!!!!
ex-employee 4 months ago
took the buyout in 2001…sold my house in NY at the height of the market and retired at age 38!…life is good…
current employee 4 months ago
Exactly bought out!
ex-employee 4 months ago
and your point is??
when i left, my local union’s executive board looked like an ad for Jenny Craig - talk about stereotypical union “fat cats.” Never forget, a union is a business within a business!
You still didn’t address the NAFTA/Clinton connection..
Local 1101 4 months ago
Exactly right …you were bought out! If it wasn’t for the union you would not have rcv. that option….they would have just kicked your ass out the door!!!!..You must not have had that much time in the company..Hope you are living well on what little pension you are getting for now…I’m sure we will hear you crying when it comes time for you to pay for your medical benefits!
Mojo 4 months ago
The union heads are the ones making all of CWA’s dues. Wake up folks and take a look @ where the Union heads live and what they make. The VZ execs are earning comparable wages to others in companies their size. They are guiding a huge ship, are ethical and must balance the stockholders’ value and the employees desire.
Slice-n-Splice 4 months ago
Ethical… don’t make me laugh. The head of this ship is raping it’s finances and letting down the most important stakeholders… it’s customers. The only people trying to get the job done right at this point is the employees. We have so many places the cable has been bad for 8+ years it’s embarrasing. The PSC is now investigating the company for a 900%… that’s right 900% increase in customer complaints. In the meantime, the company still tries to shift people out of maintenance (because it looks like a liability on it’s financial reports) and put them in jobs they make look like it is an investment. Meanwhile, we are laying out more temporary drop wires, plowing in 12 pair drops around bad cable, and patching the already patched cables as best we can…
Ethical… Our exec’s at this point are no less than crooks. 55 million dollar bonus. My God, I would love the chance to drive this company for 1/10 that. You’re an idiot….
occam 4 months ago
In ‘01 the buyout in my area was $2200 for every year of service. So if you started right out of high school at 18 you received $44,000. You are retired at 38! with a $44,000 buyout? Even if you sold your house, I would assume you have to pay to live somewhere. And you don’t address health insurance. Something doesn’t add up. Sounds like a case of union envy. Or you might have been the guy in the SQAR that got caught smoking dope.
fios sales 4 months ago
yes and you ex employee ass hole and if you keep sunbathing you are going to need benefits because you are going to have skin cancer. you could not handle the job thats why you left and I am glad you left its asshole low lifes who do not like to work that are holding up our contract
rr 4 months ago
How much did your trailer sell for?
SAB13 4 months ago
I can’t see much support for the unions these days. Look at what it’s done to the Auto industry, and how bad things are there now because they HAD to pay somebody 50k a year to sweep floors. You union guys got to wake up and face reality.
Don’t get me wrong, the management takes advantage, overpaid(most of them) and certainly don’t deserve the bonuses they get.
My first hand experience, working with verizon techs on a weekly basis, they don’t care, they don’t fix most of the T1 line issues here on L.I. , and better yet, their management staff ORDERS them to get in and out and blame it on somebody else’s equipment.
Who’s to blame, what’s the difference, the entire company should suffer, and somebody who gives a crap should come along and take away the business.
Slice-n-Splice 4 months ago
SAB… I can’t speak for L.I. because I do not work there. As for Western MD, and WV I can tell you a few things about T1 line repairs.
Right now, if you walk into our storeroom, you will be lucky to find a T-BERD (a tool for fixing T1’s), let alone find one that is working. You will also be hard pressed to find any repeater cards that are needed for T1 lines and are often damaged by lightning. It is at the point where I work that we have no choice but to swap a working line with one that is failed in order to bring one customer back up. Is this wrong. You bet your ass it is, but when our upper level managers are directed by those in New York to cut costs even though they are making record profits, they really are doing what they have been told.
The attitude of the typical VZ tech has gone to shit, because we are tired of dealing with pissed off people. We understand your concerns, but many times we have no choice but to put bandaids on the problems and cross our fingers. We have bad cable all over the place and we can’t do a damn thing about it unless the company decides to replace it. When I started I was proud to say I worked for Bell Atlantic, had pride in my work, and wanted to make the customers happy. Now, I hate to admit it, but after being cussed one hundred too many times, I avoid customer contact as much as possible. Off the clock, I never even tell people where I work anymore, because everyone has a horror story about their service, or just dealing with getting a ticket put in.
I’ll tell you right now… I don’t know what you do for a living, but come with me and carry a 100lb ladder through the woods when it’s -10F and two foot of snow on the ground and tell me I don’t deserve the pay I’m gettin, and it might get a little ugly. Most of the people have no idea how hard this job can be at times. We have many runs of cable that is 10+ miles long and we have to find the 1/32″ of an inch where the line is shorted out or grounded along the way. Sometimes this is on a busy highway, or the cable may be hundreds of yards off the beaten path, but that’s where you must go, day or night, good weather or bad to fix the problem.
We union guys are awake…. we deserve the pay we get, and if you don’t think so, come do my job for a week… if you can carry my tools that is….
SAB13 4 months ago
I wouldn’t have a problem taking on a job like yours. I would say one in about 40 techs here on the island have a clue, and the BS customer service just keeps repeating itself over and over , we can loop the circuit, we can loop the circuit……you have tool issues, and support from your office issues, well that sucks….
But what does ANY of that have to do with the bottom line, the customer, the contract they have to get service, ummmmm that they pay for.
I too have worked for companies that don’t give me the proper support. I did what you’re supposed to do, i went to work for someone who gives a crap, and provides me with what i need to go out and do my work……
Oh and as i said before, this whole issue bothers me because my issues lately with verizon are them not fixing my customers issues, which happen to be a fire department, and yes it could possibly cost someones life because they can’t communicate to their sub station STILL, for over a week now…..
While that is a little on the extreme side, it is possible, and it disgusts me that VZ could fix it, but because of a pending strike the techs were told to NOT WORK THIS WEEK……
This case should have been an exception.
So stick that and your union whining up your ass.
Slice-n-Splice 4 months ago
Play with matches….. fuck off.
Slice-n-Splice 4 months ago
Wait a minute… your customers… are you a clec? Sounds like it. Why don’t you lazy leaches run your own damn cable and fix your own customer’s issues? Part of the problem there is probably the fact that to us it looks like you are our customer and not a fire department. too bad…. Can’t wait till FIOS is fully deployed and the leaches won’t be allowed in… You work for a company that provides what’s is needed? That’s funny. What all do you need. Extra routers? Ink pens? A little pink case of patch cords? You wish you could do our job… if you were worth a fuck you would work for somebody that pays.
union worker 4 months ago
you left 7 years ago alot has changed in seven years accept our pay it is still under 70,000 glad you left one less asshole to deal with
ex-employee 4 months ago
i see the illiteracy rate hasn’t changed in 7 years. maybe you ought to take advantage of the tuition reimbursement plan and learn spelling and grammar.
“a lot” - two words.
“accept” - you mean “except”.
and if you can’t live on $70k per year, you’re the asshole.
union worker 4 months ago
i still live i ny we all cant run away
proud cwa member 4 months ago
u said retired? so we are fighting for your ass too?
fuck u and ur spell chking dumb ass.
ex-employee 4 months ago
nobody is fighting for me - i took the buyout…as a matter of fact, the more you guys get, the less my stock will be worth so you’re actually working against investors…
and i think “proud cwa member” is an oxymoron…look it up!
Verizon Wife 4 months ago
Is the best you can do is insult the man’s grammar? Come now Child, didn’t your Mother raise you any better? And to think my husband will lose pay to help your retired ass keep benifits? Give up your benifits so the good men and women of Verizon can have a raise, you know the ones that don’t sit on their ass and really work, unlike you who admitted to being dead wood! Oh, and I did not need to use spell check, unlike you!
ex-employee 4 months ago
So IQ’s have gone the same way as literacy. I said I took the BUYOUT - I’m typing slow so you can understand me - that means I got the severance package and that’s it. No benefits. Unlike most Verizon workers, I live within my means and, thanks to a few smart financial moves, I was able to retire young and enjoy life unlike some of these hangers on who get say pithy things like, “I have more time in the shithouse.” to newcomers.
proud cwa member 4 months ago
first off FUCK U!!! secondly do u even understand what the hell u did when u left the company…one sentence u took a BUYOUT next u say u retired young….so if u took what we call at verizon a PACKAGE…i typed it slow for u to understand to…then fuck off but if u did retired like u keep saying u did at the age of 38 then we are fighting for your dumb ass also….thank god u left the company…its lazy asses like u said urself u were that is a huge vz problem……and lastly…..FUCK U!!!!
ex-employee 4 months ago
apparently you are limited in your view in that leaving Verizon and retiring from the workforce at large are not the same thing.
I guess I could have taken a retirement package at age 38 if I started in the company at age 12! (6&6 was the package).
watch your blood pressure, you won’t make it to retirement age.
Have fun on the picket line! Tell me, does the union still give out more cash to the folks who are “in” as opposed to the rank and file? or did they finally clean up the corruption?
proud cwa member 4 months ago
if u left us then y are u even on here. go back as u sit n apply sunblock and read what u wrote….retired….buyout…retired ur an idiot…and what the hell do u care who the union gives more to or not..i dont..
kA 4 months ago
since your an ex employee this really doesnt concern you anymore then. some people do go to work everyday, and work very hard at there jobs. some of us do have work ethics and do believe in a days work for a days wages. your the one who sat on you butt not us. glad to see you did what was best for you. now we are doing what is best for us. good luck, I am a proud union worker, I come from a long family of proud hard working union family. non of whom sat and made 65 grand for doing nothing.
Verizon Wife 4 months ago
I will say this slow for you… S O
R E A L L Y Y O U T O O K T H E B U Y O U T A N D Q U I T.
R E T I R E M E N T F R O M
V E R I Z O N Y O U D I D N O T!
Local 1101 4 months ago
You must have been a manager!!!!
proud cwa member 4 months ago
i think she is still trying to figure out what she did when she left?
CWA13000 4 months ago
LMAO……why is anyone talking to this joker? So, he retired at 31??? With how many years??? And what the hell kind of a load (who sat on his ass when he did work) would WANT to be retired at 38. So, is it unemployment or disability WE are paying for your useless ass now. Because people like you who actually don’t want to work at the age of 38 are the kind of people who will milk the system and think they are smart while everyone else is stupid. Bottom line is you are a looser. Go on vacation with your smart investments and get a massge and a margarita while you are at it but just shut the F up and leave us to go to work and support your precious little ass. What a closet whacker…….he probably got an inheritance. You aren’t worth the rise you think you are getting.
ex-employee 4 months ago
FINALLY! A thinker. Thanks for playing. It’s so easy to get folks riled up just by typing a few things onto a screen. Unfortunately it is those simple minds that continue to listen to those that try to keep them downtrodden (unions)…
FYI, I was a steward for many years and threw in the towel when i was told by the union leaders to “slow down” because I was making my coworkers look bad. I came in, did my job, and went home. Toward the end, the company decided to dump a bunch of affirmative-actioned, surplused folks into my department. Whereas i had to study on my own time for tests, these folks were given the same job because they were surplus. And the union loved it because instead of getting 2% of a clerk’s salary for dues, they were now getting 2% of a technician’s salary.
I’d rather these knuckledraggers take out their anger on a screen than going out and cutting cables like they usually do at strike time.
CWA13000 4 months ago
You are disgruntled. There are bad seeds in every company and organization. You had a bad experience and that is ashame. I don’t think anyone on here is at fault. I’ve got 20 years and I have never even made $50,000. We are just average people tryng to make a middle class living and support our families. Why would you have a problem with that??? And no matter what you want to believe or what you choose to say on here I know that there is no way in hell you didn’t know plenty of hard working CWA members that cared about their jobs and their customers. Dude, I’m 38 too. I can’t imagine being retired. i want to go to work and provide some sort of service to someone. I want to contribute. If sitng around and sipping cocktils is how you get off then go do it. Just do us all a favor…….shut up already.
current employee 4 months ago
Then obviously, you lied earlier. You said you took the BUYOUT and RETIRED!!! You are the dumb ass. You don’t even remember what you say which is probably why you were probably FORCED out. Then you ran away because you couldn’t handle it in New York. Sounds like you are nothing but a lonely, disgruntled EX-EMPLOYEE who is nothing but a loser.
Union Wife 4 months ago
Excuse me but you do get benefits I believe unless you were management you get free medical.
Slice-n-Splice 4 months ago
To bad you didn’t stick around. The buyout you are so proud of is one of the items on the table the company is trying to take away. Shame you didn’t stick around so you could face the possibility of not getting it.
I lump you assholes in the same category as those who fought for the king, then enjoyed the freedom others fought for. You took a job that offered a certain pay level and benefits that would never have been there had union workers never fought for in the first place. Yet you still take this job apparently thinking this company loved your sweet, perfumied little ass so much they couldn’t wait to pay you the wages you got, and offer you that buyout… Why… because you are so special? No… It is because others that came before you fought for it.
Now… go look at yourself in the mirror again with admiration, and return to your chant…. “God save the King”
anthony 4 months ago
all of you fail to realize one thing. who ever said anyone without a college education should be gauranteed 70 grand a year plus full benefits on the company. Look at the UAW & FORD - that really worked out well. the employees voted for a contract the company can’t pay and now 2/3 of them are forcefullyretired and the 1/3 still working are getting 3/4 of their former pay. So cry me a river about what you think you should have, be thankful for what you got. If that means accepting a little less to keep the job…….
Local 1101 4 months ago
Hey ex-employee…I’m sure we will hear you sing a different tune when you have to pay into your medical and you are on a fixed income…..Hope you are getting out of your chair and doing some exersise!!!!
ex-employee 4 months ago
I only get out of my chair to apply more sun block and to refill my glass. Appreciate your concern for my health.
jennilynn510 4 months ago
why is anyone paying any attention to this fool ? he took a buyout…yes but the obvious part that we’re all missing is he didnt have the time to qualify for benefits. he’s gone lets be concerned with the retirees who collect a pension & benefits YET are now working as contractors for the company and are gonna cross our picket should we go. make sure that everyone tells them how much we “appreciate” their support and hope they make enough to pay for their benefits should we lose it at the table !!!!
Local 1101 4 months ago
I think he needs a crane to lift him out of his chair!! I don’t believe our health ins. covers this procedure!!!!
susan 4 months ago
helloooooooo that was 8yrs ago… get a clue
Wake Up Verizon 4 months ago
I am friends with several Verizon FiOS techs. They work hard, and have for years at 10-12 hour days. Their families, who see very little of them due to Verizon’s employment practice of prolonged, forced overtime, deserve to, at bare minimum, have the peace of mind to know that they will have health care, decent wages, AND sound retirement money coming in. Verizon is reporting high profits, yet neglecting the Network it touts so highly, and crushing the TRUE Network which are the people who work hard everyday to serve customers. Verizon, and customers of Verizon, it is your Union workers who question why management seems to no longer care about Verizon’s customers, why they have a lack of empowerment to FIX the numerous billing issues and poor service practices. They strive daily to do the best they can to make your Verizon service perform to the best of its capability, but with management squandering money in failed overseas investments and cutting reinvestment in the workforce and Verizon’s backbone network, where do you think anyone at Verizon will be in 50 more years? Verizon has such great potential to stand up for what is right, to make the brand name something of honor and tradition of service. With what is going on now, I see the red checkmark as a bloodstreak left behind on the American people… employees (Union AND middle-management) and customers alike. CWA and IBEW workers, thank you for your hard work and dedication to me as a customer.
withheld out of fear 4 months ago
I wholeheartedly agree with the tension level. Both my wife and I are Verizon/CWA. I do, hoever, support the union as I have been harassed by Verizon management on several occaisions. They expect us to bridge a sale on EVERY call into our business office…regardless of a customers age, income level or physical well-being. I was suspended once for not bridging to a custommer who had multiple schlerosis, She (the customer) could barelly even speak. My managers response to that was one of uncaring arrogance. I was given a 5 day suspension because of it. That company is full of Venom and somehow I dont think Ivan Seidenberg knows or even cares as his satin-lined pockets are well stuffed with the sweatladen money WE the employees made. As a call center employee my heart goes out to the customers that actually have to navigate the endless web of our VRU’s and believe me when I say - we dont take their anger and frustration personally, We agree with them.
Heart 4 months ago
These workers and retirees currently pay NOTHING for their health care and this includes the entire family. They also as a union make wages of $30 per hour or more. If they are out on FMLA the company still continues to pay them their FULL wage for as long as they are out, even if it is YEARS. I can understand fighting for better pay and benefits but these employees have it made. While the rest of us are struggling to make ends meet and pay significant amounts for our healthcare and make a significatly lower wage, these employees are complaining because Verizon wants them to pay about $166 a month for healthcare for the entire family. I understand fighting for better, but give me a break, the sense of entiltement needs to be replaced with an attitude of thankfulness and gratitude.
fios sales 4 months ago
oh please then go online and apply for verizon we deserve everything we get plus more
boo 3 months ago
Thats a great when corporate greed takes over and sends you to the street maybe you will be thank full and great full for your card board box you live in and the garbage can you eat out of. This is America take a stand and fight for the working class, the true backbone of this great nation!
field technician 4 months ago
The union is here to protect us, we are the front line of the company, we are the ones that work in all weather conditions. We are the first ones the customers see. We strike because verizon for one is outsourcing our jobs, subcontractor are hired to perform Jobs we should be doing and in turn the subcontractor are hiring workers who are willing to work in unsafe conditions for less than half the pay.You say we are complaining about having to pay into our medical, well guess what, due to the work we perform on the field our bodies break down quicker than one who sits in the office all day, we climb,lug around 28ft ladders, we are exposed to all elements, our knees, our backs hurt and the cost to handle these med cond are too great.you say we are fighting for an unjust 5% raise, have you seen how high our cost of living is today, gas, food, taxes. We all have families and we need to eat just like you do. But you don’t look at the ceo’s that are taking home billion dollar bonuses. They don’t care, that is why they are looking to put in fios, just another ploy to be rid of the hard working verizon union employees.
bob 4 months ago
I don’t feel badly for the union. As a Management employee, we keep having to bow to the union’s demands. I hope they do strike and the Company breaks them. They are cry babies and dont know how good they have it.
Rich 4 months ago
Its true that we have fought hard for our benefits and we will continue to fight hard to keep them. Corporate America has slowly been diminishing union power in the US since the mid 60’s. There is a direct correllation to that and the ever shrinking middle class. Once the middle class has been eroded from our society where will we be? It seems to me that large companies and there neverending pursuit to remove organized labor from the workforce is moving us backwards in time.
JIm White 4 months ago
The shareholders should strike! Flat and diminishing returns caused by a management that is dazed and confused by inferior cable products which outsell and outpace Verizon quality products in growth and revenue. Why? because happy cable customers brag about the superior customer service from the “US reps and SIMPLE if NON EXISTANT computer girl that answers the phone”. VECTORING SYSTEMS which in and of themselves cause customers to become “detractors” and eliminate jobs. Why pay a US worker to answer the phone when a computer can kinda do it. Then there is the India answering connection. We all know that customers are much happier when their problems are address by someone who CAN’T SPEAK ENGLISH or SPANISH!!!!!!!!! Not to mention Verizon management or “lack there of” in marketing. These marketing people are totally incompetent vs. cables cutting-edge creative marketing. They came up with turtles, Verizon answered with a bucket guy.
Lastly, BOB is fool if he thinks Verizon management has more university degrees that the union employees. Actually from what I have read BOB is simply a fool.
Local 1101 4 months ago
Hey Bob……I hear the R.I.F. is coming around again in sept….Hope to see your name on the list…ENJOY!!!
bob 4 months ago
LOL…my job is safer than yours. keep in mind you’re the one fighting for a contract…be realistic, the company wants to break the union…from everything i hear, it will try to…go apply for a job at home depot, perhaps u have some skills.
chad 4 months ago
hey bob if we go there will be no need for you remember that sub contracters have there management already
Local 1101 4 months ago
How is your job so safe BOB? Sounds like you are very insecure..are you really worried about your JOB BOB and afraid to say so? How can you feel so safe in whatever position you have as a manager..when the R.I.F. is always in that cloud above your head and you have no pension and you have to pay into your benefits. Tell us BOB how SAFE are you???? Oh! by the way I do have skills…a hell of alot more than you!
CWA13000 4 months ago
Honestly everyone, this guy is one of two things. Not even a VZ manager or a manager that is a complete load. All the management that I know is running around preparing for a possible strike and this guy is sitting in front of his computer heckling us????? He’s a 10 year old with mommy & daddy’s computer. You know, kinda like a crank caller…….LMAO!!! CWA members want to work…..bring our work back. Oh and BOB? Without us there is no YOU…….dumbass.
Local 1101 4 months ago
CWA13000…..You are 100% correct…this BOB or BOOB..is not a verizon manager…..If he were then he would be at his strike assignment loc…and if he is, is it not against corp. policy to use the corp internet for what he is doing???? Let’s wish for the best cwa13000..
CWA13000 4 months ago
HAHAHAHA……Are you retarded???? We know how good we have it & we fought for it. Changes will come and we will losse some things and we will gain some things. You chose management and good for you. We are the ones getting the job done to make you look good. Here’s a little news flash for you…….the Verizon executives are screwing you big time. You are where you are because you chose to be there. The only people that hate unions are the ones that aren’t in one and have no resources to fight for their personal fairness. If the union was fighting for you and got you something better than what you have left…..??? I’m thinking you wouldn’t be saying “No thank you. I don’t want better benefits. Please just take something back…you are giving me way to much.” If you are jealous either take your tools back or just shut your sorry butt up.
Nita 3 months ago
You are soooooooooooo right :) Kludos to you….
13101 Local 4 months ago
I am glad you bow down to the union as a Management employee. It will be the union who breaks the company down, they cannot survive without the hard working union employees who come to WORK everyday, unlike you who sits behind a desk and takes orders from higher ups who make your decisions for you, talk about bowing down..huh just call yourself a puppet. I am sure the employees who work for you think you are a great management person..keep up the good work
another married to Verizon 4 months ago
You CHOSE management BOB, so don’t go bellyaching about your job. I am sick of the stress this causes us. I know how much the top brass makes, and get free health care for life..and they have the nerve to give us a hard time? Let them lose their benefits and jobs, and see how much crying THEY do!
stoptheoutsourcing 4 months ago
Another you are so right! I am so sick and tired of hearing management gripe about having to pay for benefits. They made the choice to take the job! Here’s a thought…if you don’t want to pay for them find another position that is UNION within Verizon or find another company that pays for your benefits. Because management lacks the negotiation skills to have Verizon pay their benefits doesn’t make that my problem…YOU MADE THE CHOICE!
fios sales 4 months ago
Hey Bob you would not have job without union your job would be done by somebody in India. management should not only bow down to us they should be gratefull we are the reason they have jobs without union India would have it all. I will also assure you Verizon will give in and I will be laughing at you when I get free medical and full pension I allso willnot have to worry about job security when will they RIFF u
fios sales 4 months ago
To my friend the tech not to be direspectful but I work in an office 8-6 and half my lunch trying to get you techs jobs. So I feel we are the front line you have no idea what it takes to keep you guys working its not just sitting in a comfy office
Florence Steinbrecher 4 months ago
I wish they would make me management. I hate the union. Anyone wan’t to go to Six Flags with me?
CWA1105 member 4 months ago
If it wasn’t for the CWA union, every single one of the utilities including Verizon will outsource every job to India. That is why our country’s economy is in the toilet.
So Florence, is you think management is so grand, why don’t promote yourself to management. SO we can then applaud when you are rift!!!!!
jennilynn510 4 months ago
quit & save us all alot of trouble then PLEASE
fios sales 4 months ago
yea florence thats what I want no medical,job security,pension the union is so bad for fighting for this lets all apply for management and get food stamps when we retire
Mandie 4 months ago
Thank goodness for the union at Verizon. Recently our management took a 30% paycut. They have no pensions now either. Yet managment still defends a company that preys on their own?!?!? What a bunch of idiots. NO CONTRACT, NO WORK!!! Mobilize.
fios sales 4 months ago
YOU GO MANDIE NO CONTRACT NO WORK LET MANAGEMENT TAKE MY CALLS WITH OUT US THEY HAVE NO JOBS
Mandie 4 months ago
I would LOVE to see my manager try to do my job! Show me how to make a goal of 460,000 when you had to be sent to “consultant school” to learn how to do the job you coach me on every day. UNITED WE BARGAIN, DIVIDED WE BEG!!!
jennilynn510 4 months ago
ohhh i cant wait to see the managements AHT if we go…or better yet bridging & sell one more on every call….and no one to do a take over….WELCOME TO OUR WORLD…
Kaci 4 months ago
I can’t wait to see managment try to sell dsl, freedom essentials with intl calling to an 86 yr old woman who is blind and in a nursing home, WOW that customer and OWN that call, and slam and cram, etc. On a system that half ass works and locks up all the damn time, do not put that customer on hold, and do not go to the bathroom. I want to strike, they need to know how it feels. Monitoring 1 or 2 calls a month isn’t crap, sit down and do it. Try to sell a whole house in an economy that is drowning…That is all…Can’t wait for midnight!!!
VZHamptonFSC 4 months ago
Amen… I couldn’t have said that better.. these are the challenges we face everyday… Management is dreading getting on the phones where I work… and contractors and outsourcing or not, if we can barely work under these very conditions, do you think some underpaid and poor trained contractor can do it with absolutely no real incentive? This is a bad time for the company to play hardball anyhow with so much at stake… pffttt… I wish I could give top management a piece of my mind… the number crunching, reality detached assholes!
fios sales 4 months ago
oh my god mandie thats so true the sales they want is outrageous how can we do this when the have non union workers lying to our csrs free tv, camcorder gift card uggggg lets tell the company Do you hear us noe they better
vz rep 4 months ago
Camcorder!!!! I had one of those unlucky customers call in still looking for the camcorder Friday!
LIL SMITTY 4 months ago
BOB U R AB HAKF A REATRD U LOWLIFE
Cableguy 4 months ago
well if you guys did not spend so much trying to build out the fios plant they there would be more for the techs. money is being pulled from the wireless division to spend on the fios project.
rob O 4 months ago
cable guy? you dont have a clue….
Local 1101 4 months ago
it sounds like cableguy is afraid of the competition FIOS is going to bring to his company??? Maybe shortly he will be knocking on VERIZON”S door for a real job…
Slice-n-Splice 4 months ago
I’m with ya cable guy… I heard last week they came up with a new technology to pump OC192 bandwidth through a coax cable. It works so good that the people at the END of the CATV leads have better bandwidth than those at the beginning. Now Verizon’s screwed.
HAHAHAHAHA…..
BARB 4 months ago
$$$$ may be pulled from the Wireless side, but guess what dumass, $$$$$$ was pulled from the landline side years ago to build the wireless network, so what’s your point?
Mandie 4 months ago
Today is the day brothers and sisters. This is our last regular business day with a contract. Don’t underestimate our resolve to take this fight to the streets. My CEO Ivan makes 208.00 per minute and he wants to begrudge us a 5% raise which equstes to about 15 seconds of work for him?!?!?! We are union proud!!
bob 4 months ago
To all the union idiots: this is the day of redemption…go strike and dont come back ya hear…we have baccsi and subcontractors who do ur work better…stay on the picket line and then come crawling back…
Verizon Wife 4 months ago
Bob, I have a question: Why do you talk like a man with a paper asshole?
Local 1101 4 months ago
verizon wife….his brains probablly came out of that hole a long time ago!
scott 4 months ago
Bob, I am a member of VCS in New Jersey, VCS is the new baccsi, and we are standing alongside our brothers and sisters on the picket line
current employee 4 months ago
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
bob 4 months ago
lil smitty…do u know how to spell, if not use spell check..
Cableguy 4 months ago
The Cable compnay will win Fight it out guys( and gals)
BARB 4 months ago
I doubt it, I have a few contacts at Comcast, who tell me any time we (Verizon) turn up a neighborhood, they (Comcast) lose 50% of their customer base. Sucks to be you!
lkedads 4 months ago
Ahhh snap! I think they will work w/o a contract
Kevin 4 months ago
I hope you strike!!! I could use a couple months working outside. Please PlEaSe PLEASE!!! STRIKE!!!!!!
lkedads 4 months ago
I’m Mgmt too - I hope they do too, however, I still think they will work without a contract. Hype is that Union says they are going out and Mgmt says they aren’t — Countdown had begun!
Comment 4 months ago
At least you have a job. Your health, it is very difficult for everybody out here.
As far as outsourcing jobs, this country sucks, but the ecomony is fine!!
My husband was hurt, lost his job, was getting paid low wages, blue collar worker that now has to compete with, excuse me for saying this but lower working wage grabbers who sit at the 7 eleven every day and are hired to work, don’t pay taxes and nothing is done. Collect SS and section 8, has health care because they have children and one on the way.
In the 60-70 people would strike, so do so.!!!!!!!
lkedads 4 months ago
Verizon is not the “perfect” company - however, it’s a GOOD one. I was stricken with cancer. This company paid my medical bills, held my job (for almost 2 years), and is considerate of my limitations since I’ve returned. I will respect this Company until my last breath - I may not like what they do sometimes, but all in all it has taken good care of me. I will work the strike and NO I won’t be able to do the job as good as the union folks, but I will do my best.
bob 4 months ago
AMEN
quitbellyaching 4 months ago
Verizon has been and always will be a terrific company to work for. The unions are on their way out and I say “Good riddance”. Unions are the reason this economy is such a mess. Their demands are ridiculous and now business has been iand will continue to go overseas. They had their usefulness in the early 1900’s when the country was industrializing but not now.
And I have heard that comment before about ” you chose management”! That is the most ludicrous statement I have ever heard. Why is it that company workers do not want to better themselves and climb the ladder? I think it is because most of them are not management material and are jealous of anyone who is!
proud cwa member 4 months ago
What fucking world to u live in? Union workers will not take title because we all know R.I.F is Verizon’s biggest game…We see good managers leave every other month while the garbage know nothing ones stay behind… verizon does not care how good you are….its all dollars and cents…I know I am a great worker…have had managaement jobs offered to me at least a dozen times….I am just fine were i am…I stand behind my UNION!!!!! we will win this….so make ur ot while we are out on the picket lines…we will be back soon enuf to fix all the fuck ups u assholes make….enjoy
VZHamptonFSC 4 months ago
My sentiments exactly… they’ll create a big enough mess for us to clean up they’ll practically beg us to come back and guarantee us another 3-5yrs worth of work… hmmpf!!!
VZ Mistakey... 3 months ago
Yes, Verizon is a great company..SO great that a member of management where I work has slept with (and admitted to sleeping with) 6 female employees. Has harassment my friend about her sales and threatened to fire her, if she didn’t essentially slam and cram customers. But he’s still on top, just sleeping around, and will emotionally and mentally beat female employees down that do not bow down to his “superior male” mind. Yes, a fine company.
A company that outsources to middle eastern people that nobody can understand. People really dread calling dsl for any kind of help, I’ve had people BEG me to try and help them so they don’t have to talk to someone overseas. And WHEN we do strike these f*ck ups will f*ck everything up and we’ll have one hell of a mess to clean up when we get back.
Belong to the Union, don’t belong to the union it’s personal preference, but when someone under qualified sh*t have your ages takes your job, don’t come crying to us…Seriously…Don’t.
collectionreprobot 4 months ago
“You chose management” is a very true & exact statement. No one is forced to go into management. I work in a call center as a Collection rep and I would NEVER go into management. This is my job; not my life. Our supervisors for the call centers are here anywhere from 6:30am to 6:30pm every day and then come in on the weekends. They chose the management job because it’s big money. They do now have to pay for their benefits but it wasn’t always that way. They get bonuses which sometimes were from our, the associates’, ideas. If we go on strike they get paid big bonuses for working our job & extra long hours. So managers made the decision to take the big bucks & bonuses over making a living to support their family while still being able to spend time with their families. Not getting to spend time with my child is not what I consider a good choice. It would be “bettering myself” but not certainly bettering my family. The stress we are under in a call center is unreal and I would love to see management do our job under the same rules & regulations they have put on us. Verizon supposedly is now trying to maintain their customer base & provide “excellent service” because they know the competition is great. However, we in the call centers are expected to provide this “excellent customer service” to our customers all in 255 seconds or less. If we talk over that time on a call, we get an IM sent to us telling us we’re talking too long. Plus it goes against us on our Performance rating. As does going on a bathroom break that’s not during scheduled breaks & lunches. Verizon needs to make up their mind if they want to maintain their customer base with quality service or if they want to continue paying outlandish amounts of money to management (from 1st level all the way to the CEO) & then cutting employees in order to do that. So our union is here to protect us against a company who wants the profits for themselves (management) but is cutting everything else & hurting the associates as well as customers in the process. Ivan made $26,000,000.00 in 2007 as his salary. He better enjoy it because if he doesn’t realize his cost-cutting on associates & customers is bringing down the reputation of Verizon than he won’t have those big bucks much longer.
KML 4 months ago
The old saying goes …….those that can do………those that can’t become management……..I’d love to see my supervisor in a roach infested manhole trying to splice a pulp cable together. He wouldn’t know what a manhole cover was if it landed on his foot.
quitbellyaching 4 months ago
kml
Your statement is laughable! Why would anyone want to stay in a roach infested manhole and not better themselves IF they were capable of doing so?
KML 4 months ago
Because it pays better and has benefits
lkedads 4 months ago
It it pays better and has benefits~~~~ What grounds do have to strike?
KML 4 months ago
I said it pays better… I didn’t say that I was Mr. Seidenburg
current employee 4 months ago
He probably wouldn’t know how to turn on a computer or splice a cable.
chad 4 months ago
to keep it that way quitbellyacking
current employee 4 months ago
Because they want to take it away. We have worked hard for Verizon to earn a 5.5B dollar PROFIT!!!! Yes PROFIT!!!! We deserve some of that money. If it wasn’t for the front line which is all union workers there would be no profit!
CWAPROUD 4 months ago
STAND TALL CWA BROTHERS AND SISTERS!
STRIKE STRIKE
quitbellyaching 4 months ago
lkedads,
AMEN!
current employee 4 months ago
Guess life isn’t that good. Can see the jealousy coming out.
CWAPROUD 4 months ago
Show the company that we are not going to back down! Put them in a tight spot! NO OVERTIME 2DAY!! And we’ll see just how much a business degree helps out management when they’re out here in the 90 degree heat, climbing poles and TRYING to fix telephones..HAHA I would just about pay money to see that..
To all the CWA members, CWA in Virginia is standing right beside of you all!
DONT GIVE BACK!
quitbellyaching 4 months ago
cwaproud,
You get paid WAY TO MUCH MONEY to do that now!
KML 4 months ago
If we do go on strike we’ll get paid even more to clean up the mess that management has made of the outside plant
current employee 4 months ago
Bellyaching, you take a buyout instead of getting fired? You seem to be one bitter person, If it wasn’t for the union that buyout wouldn’t have been available to you. So you should be on your knees thanking the union that you had an option for a buyout.
lkedads 4 months ago
I would almost wager a weeks pay that the Union will work w/o a contract. It’s just hype for them to rouse up the union employees and then at the last minute settle and claim “they won” I don’t think they will get much sympathy from the general public when Vz releases their wage schedule and demands for more! All I can say is that I’m ready to work for the duration. Make the decision to walk, and I hope that you family has another source of income to fall back on!
quitbellyaching 4 months ago
Looks to me like a strike is inevitable. The company will not continue to give you your demands especially when it comes to medical benefits. Everyone in this country but you pay something for medical insurance. Prices keep rising and you expect a free ride. It’s not going to happen! Management will do extremely well doing your jobs; they always have. So I hope you have saved a great deal of your inflated wages because you will need it for a “LONG STRIKE” just to pay your bills!
KML 4 months ago
Management will do extremely well doing your jobs……NO, they will get paid well PRETENDING to do our jobs
chad 4 months ago
just remember the fat end of the pole goes down
current employee 4 months ago
Apparently you have never had to work after a strike. Management screws everything up. It’s because of them customers complain because what they promise or say they will do is never done. They don’t even call customers back. So yea they will do just fine. They will do nothing but their paperwork.
quitbellyaching 4 months ago
BTW, all of you union workers who are responding to this thread: Are you doing this during work hours? Just another abuse of the system!
chad 4 months ago
no i took vacation just to do this
stoptheoutsourcing 4 months ago
Oh, that’s right you are exempt from sitting in your walled cubicle surfing and posting all day on issues that you very well should keep your mouth shut about. Laughable. Another fine example of time management, skill, and intellect of the fine Management team.
current employee 4 months ago
Jealous again.
lkedads 4 months ago
You go “Quitebellyaching”
quitbellyaching 4 months ago
kml,
Now I am really confused! A few minutes ago you said you didn’t want to be MANAGEMENT because you get paid better and have better benefits. Now you say they get paid really well to do your jobs! Which is it?
Strike- go ahead! You will be out for months! Oh I forgot, you will most likely work without a contract!!!! Silly me!
KML 4 months ago
I don’t know where you are located but where I’m at management will work mandatory 12hr days with OT
KML 4 months ago
henceforth……”paid well”
Jay 4 months ago
You fool, tell me why the company will not be doing any fios installs. The answer is the vast majority of management has not a clue about what there doing. They will however do repair’s, and let me tell you how it will go. They will call someone and describe the problem, and the status of the ONT. Then some other fool will follow a play card and go through steps with the fool at the house. “If that does not work go to step 3″ and so on. It’s parasites like you “quitbellyaching” (who by the way won’t even use his own name) that are the problem with this country. “I will work more for less so you can put more money in your pocket boss”. Your comments have no validity what so ever, (probably because your head is so far up the company’s ass) clearly it is you who are a burden to the payroll, and if the company is looking to save money, I suggest they riff you handsome. Better yet do us all a favor and off yourself.
current employee 4 months ago
We do get paid better! Management does have to work like dogs. Doing reports, observing and following points on a form. However they can not do the job! They ask seasoned employees questions. Managers pay for their benefits and have no pension. Some of the fools were union employees and took a so called “promotion”. They all lost their pension. Now thats a company that cares about their workes. DML
CWAPROUD 4 months ago
quitbellyaching,
yeah i bet some union pple on here are at work now..Boy I bet that really ticks you off doesnt it?? pple making $30/hr to sit around on the internet….yeah that probably ticks you off
KML 4 months ago
I guess being a desk jockey can payoff sometimes
IBEW PROUD 4 months ago
We all deserve a well paid salary and medical benefits and pension since we work for Verizon for 365 days out of the year. I have worked on both sides (Both union and Mgt) out of the two, the money is not worth it on Mgt side. , so if you’re smart, go back to the union with all the BENEFITS.
another married to Verizon 4 months ago
Management are the dumbasses that screw up the job once we go out on strike, IF they can do any work at all. You have to be a dumbass to not get medical and benefits, and last I heard, your pensions got frozen. yeah that’s right, go ahead and be management…DUMBASS! And by the way Bellyaching…we DO pay for our medical, and it gets higher each year, just like everyone else’s. Change your name to SCAB!
Simpleton 4 months ago
The simple point that the union is trying to make. If the big guys would just stop being greedy for a little bit and give back into the company it would make things a whole lot easier.
We say we have raising cost of business and raising cost of this and that. Repeat calls into the call centers, techs who get to locations and can’t fix problems and have to deal with upset customers face to face. Everyone in this company who has any customer contact knows what i mean.
I dont think anyone in the union is asking for to much, if you look at it this way. We still made money with the current contract and the costs of putting fiber down.
Now if big o’Ivan and others, takes a little less money at the end of the year and puts it back into the infrastructer of the company then i think we would be a whole lot better off. With better order systems you would cut down on repeat calls which helps acccess a ton. Better access means less outscorced phone calls which means customers dont get wrong information. A simpler system would also allow for easy modifications to orders. Instead we get a system that was a terrible port from west over to east and we are told to just deal with it. There is something really wrong when the first suggestion to fix any system problem is did you “restart”.
Sorry for the wall of text.
bob 4 months ago
these union people wouldn’t be able to work in the private sector. they are dumbasses at best. go on strike and see how much verizon needs you.
stoptheoutsourcing 4 months ago
And Bob’s post is a prime example of people who are clearly educated and capable to enbark on a long career in Verizon management. To be so petty allow me to point out the perfect grammar and punctuation.
And these are the elloquent people who have become Ivan’s puppets. We are the dumb ones you know…LOL!
GAME ON BOB! Let’s see that Verizon obviously does need “these union people” to compensate for your obvious inadequecies and lack of intelligence.
SOLIDARITY!
current employee 4 months ago
Considering just about every manager, who is supposedly trying to help a new employee, asks a seasoned employee questions on how to do the job. Then trust me, They need us. We go through weeks of training just to start the job. We know what we are doing. They don’t and neither will the scabs they bring in.
lkedads 4 months ago
Union Folks: Don’t fool yourselves. If your Union could talk Vz into permitting the union into Wireless or VzB; they would give up your benefits and cost of living raise in A HEARTBEAT just to make the union stronger. Be careful what you ask for - you may just get it.
Associated Press one hour ago predicted Strike a Vz Unlikely
proud cwa member 4 months ago
“It is unlikely that a strike would break out immediately this weekend, since the parties normally continue to negotiate without a contract for a while.”
this was what the associated press put out…..but i see like most managers u dont do the follow thru…so hp u cn undrst ths…..cause as u sit thr tryng 2 do my jb n rd my nts on a csr ord th is al u wl c……hp ur trnr tght u well…….fucked u p there a bt im sure……u mangers know nothing….that is y our union is so strong and sooooooooo very much needed…without us VZ would and will be nothing….
Open Challenge to bob 4 months ago
Well bob here is an open challenge to you. What is it that you do that puts you up on such a high pedistool? Do you crunch numbers all day? Not all of us are OPTs or SSTs. Some of us work on the inside of the business. I dare you to come to my job site and work on the equipment that we install and maintain. Your condescending attitude is what is wrong with this company on so many levels. I don’t venture to guess my IQ but I will tell you that I have much more of an intimate knowlage of the future telecom products, FTTP equipment and video than you ever will. Respect what some us bring to the table, and the value of which we cost, because some of us could get double our earnings outside the company than in.
kA 4 months ago
I would like to know what bob does too? We all do something different, each have a different contribution which makes Verizon a successfull mulitbillion dollar company. we all deserve to be compensated in whatever way WE agreed upon. so when bob agreed to be management, he agreed to be compensated in the way he is getting compensated. I choose to NOT be management, and NOT give up my union backing after 9 years knowing what kind of things can happen. and bob, I know what my IQ is, so I know I am very intelligent. That is why I am not in mangagment. and I am very good at what I do.
Bob is an idiot 4 months ago
Bob must be in management, hence, he’s a big dumbass too! Go ahead and work for us while we are out Mr. Know-it-all…then you will lose your pension and possibly get sacked, since I just heard after this is over, they are going to dump 30% of management like they have already done before! DUMBASS!
Kumar 4 months ago
Dank you verizon, TaTa consulting is waiting in the wings for all your jobs. We took over IT and work for 5 dollar an hour even though it takes us 3 times to get anything correct. We just nod our heads and say yes and smile.
Notice your ceo get’s a raise every year event though the stock price has stayed basically the same.
The I in verIzon stands for India!
Open Challenge to bob 4 months ago
I have also heard for over a month that there will be a huge RIFF in September. It sucks that there will be losses of any jobs. But at least from my own point of view of a couple of different departments management is just along for the ride. The have no technical knowlage, and a holier than thou attitude. I can manage myself. I need no immediate supervision. I’m given a job to do, hours to do it in. And I do that job. I do it better and faster than vendors hired to do the same job plus I’m able to troubleshoot and help fix problem that come up on existing equipment. A vendor would never do that. So we have an abundence of managment stabbing each other in the back to prove their worth. I’m being civil with bob. No insults. I’m curious why he belives he is better than everyone else. What does he bring to the table that is so benificial? I could stoop to the level of calling people dumbasses, idoits, or trolls but I refrain from that now.
Rich 4 months ago
Its all based on greed and envy. It seems that the perception of mngt is that the union members are greedy and should be grateful for what they have. The envy comes in when mngt realizes what the union has and asks themselves why don’t we have the same thing? Because Verizon screwed you mngt. They cut your benefits. They took away your pension. If it is anyone mngt should be angry at its Verizon.
Truth 4 months ago
The sad thing is , all you Union folks spew your rhetoric because you don’t have the education or business knowledge to understand corporate dynamics. By the same token, management toes the company line rather than admit that the career development and security from third level down is nil. At the end of the day, the suits win no matter what. If everyone actually tried to work together, crush the cable companies, and TAKE CARE OF THE CUSTOMER, we would be in better shape. After all these years, the customers are getting the shaft worse than any of us, and nobody seems to care.
ticked off Union member 4 months ago
what everyone seems to forget is that if/when we do go to the doctor we dont just breeze in free. We have co-pay to deal with and if we need medicine -well thats not exactly free let me tell you. So all you ignorant people out there who seem to think we get it all free…you couldn’t be more wrong..
And heaven forbid we have an accident or develop a ‘real medical issue’ the company gives us such a hard time when it comes to paperwork you’d much rather crawl back to work then deal with it. There is absolutely no sympathy at all…
as far as us not doing a good job..You can blame that on management.When we go to work in the morning and are told exactly what to do, and what not to do,and get suspended if we dont follow rules,our hands are tied…We’ve all been told ‘the landlines are not important” ‘dont worry about the phone lines,they are a low priority’ by management..all they really care about now is fios..and even that now is starting to slip. I know anyone reading this wh