The Verizon Strike is Union Propaganda

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I know you hear the Unions says this is about loss of benefits and outsourcing. Douche bag Bernie Sanders states myth Verizon pays no taxes when the CEO provides him wrong by showing Verizon paid $15 billion over the last 2 yrs.

No the Union children are mad Verizon is no investing and shrinking their wireline/landline business. I mean how many of us have moved away from a landline at home. Most companies, like mine, have moved to internet based lines. Landlines are going the way of the dinosaur and Verizon is right to take steps to prepare for this declines.


Once again it is Union stupidity that will lead to their downfall. 40k union workers walk out; 10k already trains non-Union worker come in to keep operations a float. There will be at least 20k pink slips when the strike is over. Slowly but surely Union workers will get phased out.

Also the workers they are supposedly fighting for are ones that have a combined benefit of $130k.


Unions announce Verizon strike, assailing 'shameful demands'

The company said that the employees in question have a wage and benefit package that averages $130,000 a year. It said that many of the employees affected worked on "wireline" or landline operations that it sees as increasingly less profitable.


"Over 99 percent of these employees support the wireline business which in 2015, contributed about 29 percent of Verizon’s revenue but less than 7 percent of the Company’s operating income," the company said in its statement.

Verizon said it had offered a 6.5 percent wage increase over the term of the contract, "access to quality and affordable" healthcare, and a 401K with a company match."

 

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The Verizon CEO rebuttal to Numbnutz Sanders is classic. Sanders is so fucking clueless and his supporters are even bigger dumbfucks.




Sanders Says Verizon ‘in a Given Year Has Not Paid a Nickel in Taxes’ — So CEO Releases Inconvenient Numbers in Scathing Response

"Sen. Sanders has also involved himself in our on-going negotiations with the labor unions representing some 36,000 communications workers in our wireline business, a bargaining process that has been going on since last June. At a labor convention in Philadelphia last week, Sanders claimed that Verizon is demanding that workers take pay cuts and reduce health benefits or see their jobs shipped overseas.

Again, Sen. Sanders is wrong on the facts. More egregiously, he oversimplifies the complex forces operating in today’s technologically advanced and hyper-competitive economy.

Our objective in these negotiations is to preserve good jobs with competitive wages and excellent benefits while addressing the needs of our ever-changing business. All of our contract proposals currently on the table include wage increases, generous 401(k) matches and continued pension benefits. Contrary to Sen. Sanders’s contention, our proposals do not call for mass layoffs or shipping jobs overseas. Rather, we’ve asked for more flexibility in routing calls and consolidating some of our call centers, some of which employ a handful of people. We would continue to provide health insurance for active and retired associates and their dependents, but we have proposed some common-sense reforms to rein in the cost of these plans, which in 2015 ran to $1.4 billion a year for these represented employees, retirees and dependents. In fact, our healthcare plans – which provide access to medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage – are robust enough to make us subject to the “Cadillac tax” on excessive plans as defined in the Affordable Healthcare Act … the very law Sen. Sanders supported and voted for."