We need to remember that it’s us (workers) against them (management). We need to support the unions whether or not we ourselves are in the union or not. Once they break the Union they will go after after the people in the private sector and there will definitely be no rights at all!!! Management will never give a DAMN about the workers and that is mainly about 99% of us. So we should support Verizon and all the other unions that go on strike.

What is Verizon threatening to take away from a typical union employee?

I recall a Verizon telephone technician with about 10 years of experience making well over $100,000 per year. The buyout offers for some of these employees was just ridiculous when they were doing layoffs. If this is the case, I think the employees need to face reality. You’re not entitled to a good wage ($100k+) just by being an American. You need to earn it.

Verizon could care less about POTTS and its labor force, matter of fact instead of a strike you should be happy you got a job, next you will get your layoff notices ,now you can join the rest of us in a third world economy.

i am from the past a retiree that went on strike against Verizon to maintain a job and to pave the way for you young people to keep and protect what i worked for to pass it on to you.i am sickened by your anti union mentality this is why American jobs are being shipped overseas to pay wages next to nothing cause this is what you are willing to accept. so when more and more jobs ship over sea’s for little wages and you have nothing but yourself to blame. this is why i support the unions they are fighting for the retired workers and active employees.i depend on my healthcare benefits as a senior who no longer has the physical ability to work anymore or even find a job at my age.

The union parasites killing another business…Fire them all.. Let them start their own company….

Regrettably, the pitiful level of telephone customer service are intact.

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Also, the notion that ‘union employees contribute nothing’ to health care WHOLLY overlooks the fact they’ve got their own health care program…..

VERIZON..SEE THE HORIZON YET? THEY ARE A TRUE RIP OFF COMPANY..I HAD IT WITH THEM 2 TIMES..THEIR PHONE SERVICE..IF YOU LOOK AT THEIR BILLS.20% PURE MADE UP TAXES….AND OTHER ASSORTED BULL…

How do you pronounce Verizon in Chinese? Bye? Gone? layoffs?

verizon land line has a big money maker with fios,the company has never lost money,they made billions in profit last year,as a union employee i could understand if they were losing monry but they are not.look at the bonuses and the pay the ceo and his top people get. we are just trying to keep what we got to raise a family

This country has 9% unemployment. Be glad you have A JOB. How many people have had their hours cut, salaries frozen or reduced???? and the Unions want …… a “living” wage?? I could live on it just fine I’m sure..

I know of millions of people in a new union. It is called the “Unemployed Workers Union.” They will be happy to cross the picket line.

Unions had and have a purpose but when it becomes outrageous that is when unions hurt everyone but their members. I am all for workers being paid a just wage whne it comes to benefits especially medical I would like to see every union step up and support the new helathcare law or are they as self-serving as Congress. The avarage ameican pays substantially more for medical coverage while working and in retireiment when campared to Congress and union workers. That is unfair and where unions over step there bounds. fair wages just working conditions and equal benefits for all.

This is a stupid time to strike. These are LANDLINE workers. Meaning the company, for the most part, is going to function just fine without them and probably doesn’t even need half of them. Don’t know what the unions are thinking, but it’s the employees who are going to suffer big time here. This will be very long strike, and many will end up never returning to their jobs.

In 1982 CEO’s made 42 times the pay of the average worker…In 2009 that ratio went to 263 times after going up as high as 431 times in 2004!!…Any questions?

good going!!! unions destroyed companies such as GM and other American icons and now keep on demanding more benefits and wages, then we will have no jobs in the US. we blame on China for taking all jobs away from us yet nobody wants to pay $200 for sneakers, $50 for socks etc when the companies couldn’t afford union-backed workers to manufacture anything. just coming off from bankruptcy, now UAW is talking about negotiation. it is nice gesture.

It is amazing to me how everyone is on one side or the other of almost every argument anymore. Let me try to explain this in a way that you third graders might be able comprehend.
Unions exist because corporate greed has repeatedly run rampant and ruined working in America. When we trust the market we get abused and taken advantage of so much that we form unions to try to fight the companies.
After a few decades of unions the union officials make great money and have inflated wages for their members and now the union has become greedy. The workers are overpaid and often much more safe in their jobs than they should be (hard to fire).
Neither situation is desirable. Letting companies take advantage of everyone is bad. Letting unions ruin productivity is bad.
I think that America is destined to go down the tubes – all we know how to do anymore is line up on this side or that side…we have forgotten that the middle is where most people live and where things get done.

Dissolve all corporations

Verizon has grown too large and too greedy. First off: drop the fee for unpublished and unlisted directory services on your telephone connection. You are only throwing good money after bad. Anyone can, with a little computer savvy can, find your telephone number via the Internet.

Secondly, you are not the customer. Verizon refers to you as the customer to stroke your ego. Actually, the shareholder is the customer. They’re are the ones Verizon is actually stroking with increased dividends.

Speaking about shareholders, notice how fast congress stopped pursuing going after off-shore and Swiss bank accounts just before the debt ceiling situation arose. I wonder why?

Just another attack moon the middle class workers and unions. When you see their profits in the millions or billions, and they say that they don’t have the money, is what my parents called “HOG WASH”

Yea Ma Bell… I reckon the American workers at Verizon should be brought into the real world… I’ll take a dose of the real world that the CEOs get for starters! Don’t be ridiculous… the middle class is getting strangled and finally a union is standing up. Good for them.

Verizon is not bargaining in good faith. They want across the board cuts and haven’t budged since talks began over 6 weeks ago. All the union wants is for Verigreedy Corp. to come to the table with an offer that doesn’t insult it’s employees and wipe out over 50 years of progress. And the union will return to work during these negotiations

The company actually do have the money to pay our pension, to give us a pension, to give us a fair and decent raise, to also pay for our medical. We, as workers, we want our bread and roses too,” said Anita Long,
Sounds like a very educated women? I think she already makes more money then she deserves because of the union

break the union and problems solve

Just another attack on the middle class by a big profitable corppration.

“The company said union employees contribute nothing to their health care premiums.”

But we, the customers, pay for our own health care, and it seems we’re paying for theirs as well. Maybe they should be brought into the real world.