Use Your Head and Be Prepared. “It’s NOT about you (yours truly) and me (management), it’s business.”

Why would ATS reduce the amount of time to perform a 3-box install from 2 hours to 1.5 hours? At 2 hrs per job, the number of jobs per day (if all jobs were 3 setters) would amount to 4.

If it changes to 1.5, a technician will be done (hopefully) in 6 hours.

That leaves ATS with two options:

ATS can decide NOT to cut down the workforce and lower the work hours per week, from 40, to 30 hours per week. No one is let go. It will also lower the amount ATS will have to pay for health care and salaries. You can thank ObamaCare for that.

Or, add more work and keep you at 40 hours per week. And if that is the case, then some guys will have to go. Why keep 100 guys on the payroll when 75 will do the same amount of work.

How many will be let go?

If you have 100 technicians at 8 hours per day, that amounts to 800 hours per day. The new "work load" amounts to 600 hours, which leaves ATS with 200 hours of "free time". Divide 200 hours by 8 hours per day.... gives you 25. That's twenty-five technicians.

Simple math. Now whom would ATS choose to be unemployed? If you were ATS, who would you choose? Would salaries have an effect on their decision? Here’s a hint….

“I don’t like to pay salaries. I pay as little as I can.”

And don’t forget those who chose NOT to take the 10% cut in pay. PAYBACK is a beetch. Do you honestly believe your new owner will allow a change in policy to make YOU happy?

DO YOU STILL THINK A UNION MAY NOT BE NECESSARY?

Or, will you fight this fight on your own? Will you “take it cool” and just move on?

I have no idea and I wish you a lot of luck and success in your future. Nor, am I Nostradamus in the prediction business. I’m just laying out the possibilities. As one “management troll” once said on this website, “It’s NOT about you (yours truly) and me (management), it’s business.”

Now YOU figure it out.

But use your head…. BE PREPARED.

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Haha denial is a good thing ain't it? You'll see soon enough th foolishness of your archaic thinking friend.

@gsr >> That's what the Executives were saying 8 months ago over at the VZ, till we brought them to their knees. UNION STRONG

@MCLQvgR-dab

You should be ashamed. I bet your an highly educated individual with your degree, masters and your doctorate. Higher learning should have paid off tremendously for you as it did for me. I realise that not all of us thats educated, retain simple common sense in this world. Have you not known this lesson through out your life.

In life the locations and the players may change. Yet the principle will remain the same.

You may need someone more intelligent than you to understand that in 2017.

No matter wat the trolls say, the union is coming to all shops whether you like it or not!!!!

Again that was a different time. When you wake up to 2017 let me know.

How did society make significant changes to how they were treated by the ruling elites. They came together as one voice, stood up for their rights and against tyrants like these corporations. Its likewise inevitable that the masses will find a way even by any means necessary to preserve or prevail some of or even better than what they once had. You my friend I see, would sell your own soul to the highest bidder for selfishness, instead of supporting those that are truly in need. There are always Judas's like you everywhere.

The point is all Union today can do is delay the inevitable. So it's not taken away today that's fine but it will be taken away I promise you that. Spectrum techs will have to accept the offer or find another job.

Remember they've been without a contract since 2013. Bivouac you they think a strike will change the offer. But it won't not today not ever.

@MCLQvgR-rzm

By all means necessary unionizing and the UNION helps. If it were not for the union they would have already taken away their current benefits and replaced it with whatever the Spectrum wanted.

The Union is trying to help the workers.

Spectrum ATS and Altice are the real villains here. Taking away and want more for less, . We are not buying your narrative .

Aww man it's too bad I don't work for corporate. However great job with the original comment.

Lol I see people still think Union can help......if a strike at spectrum is all you have than your in trouble.

Had no idea a voice at the table meant holding a picket sign out in the street.

I almost respect that you've gone from "facts" to scare tactics. Congrats you've passed Union Organizing 101

Remember the people who told us trust us, Altice need you guys?Where are they now? All jumped ship and are at Charter/Spectrum.

New Jersey

On the impact on employees, Cablevision will not cause a reduction in force in customer-facing jobs, including at the Newark Project Facility located at 494 Broad Street, for two years following the close of the transaction. After the two year period, but before 3 years post approval, if there is any net loss of customer-facing jobs in New Jersey greater than 15%, the Joint Petitioners shall notify the Board of such change and provide an appropriate explanation.

New York

The Commission will prohibit Cablevision from laying off, or taking any action effecting an involuntary reduction (excluding retirement incentives and attrition), in any customer-facing jobs in New York in the four years following the issuance of this Order.149 Cablevision shall be required to report to the Secretary to the Commission, within 14 days of the issuance of this Order, the number of customer-facing employees it employs in New York State.

Connecticut

State did not impose any conditions for Altice

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