I have been with Centurylink for 30 years and now it is time to go. Level3 managers are arrogant bullies. They totally took over and treat the Centurylink employees like crap. We got thrown to the wolves. We had to take on some of their tasks but not one level3 employee has stepped up to help us out. That's what is going on in my area and and other areas. I have been working in the industry for 50 years and been through many mergers. The Centurylink employees are being laid off but not Level3. I have never seen anything as bad as this. Good luck legacy Centurylink employees.
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Unions raise costs by getting too much pay for employees that, on average, tend to be mediocre. Tough to get rid of poor performers and tough to manage the workforce efficiently due to union rules.
Just the way it is.....unions want jobs at the expense of profits while scamming dues, dues that are unjustified because of the lack of value workers get,
Union raises costs for companies.
Level 3 isn't use to the local unions. So they compare the level 3 with centurylink and think CTL was over paid and has more employees for the same amount of work. At one time we were booming and busy. Since merger level 3 chose to ignore plant and reduce head count. Will add contractors by 2020 and dare union to strike. Watch and see
we heard the same in our center also, they seem to be paid less. talking to our L3 counterparts they cut out all overtime for them.
We are hearing this all about $ (how to cut costs) L3 are paid less so that is why they are staying.
yes I agree I saw it first hand I was laid off . Maintenance of an Infrastructure is not just cross connects . not just numbers, not just metrics, we were not robots. TI have not met one Happy National fiber network tech working for level3 ...