Posting our jerbs on the job board. OH NERRRRRRRRRR

Forcing workers to strike, bad idea number 2. Buying Yahoo, bad idea number 3

It looks like that all union voices on layoffs.com are silenced by hundreds of scabs that are getting paid to sabotage us on this site. PLEASE SHARE THIS SITE WITH MORE UNION MEMBERS, POST LINKS ON FACEBOOK UNION PAGES SO WE CAN HAVE MORE UNION... — read more 

THE VERY HARD WORKING DEDICATED CORE OF VERIZON!! THEY ARE SCUM!

I'm Chinese so I just ate the cat. Just kidding, I'm actually Vietnamese and I ate the dog. Nah, I'm an Eskimo and ate a seal, no that's Hedi Klum's job.

They wouldn't really replace us, right? The millions being spent on hiring/training and standing up call centers all over the country is just a big bluff, right? Company is on the edge off collapse, about to cave, right? If we hold out longer that... — read more 

Company and union will continue negotiations while we go back. They are close to a deal so that is why Union agreed to this. Gonna be a 5 yr deal retro to end of this one. There will be healthcare increases and pension freeze at 30 yrs. company can... — read more 

Job includes generous pay, health insurance, vacation, 401K, tuition. Tons of overtime so you can write your own pay check The American Dream that includes a chicken in every pot, steak on every grill.

http://www.verizon.com/about/careers

The prophecy states that the Strike will be over after an EWA worker and Union Member mate and give birth to the first FIO-Toad. This FIO-Toad will watch from the comfort of a nicely decorated union provided home. One day he will create the... — read more 

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Let’s use this thread to make predictions on how the strike will end. Do your paragraph, outline the outcome and the system will time stamp it. We’ll circle back and come back to the thread once the things play out. Make sure NOT to leave the NAME... — read more 

Throw-away account because I am directly impacted here, and don't want this to be traced back to me. For those who aren't aware, there is a big Verizon strike looming (~40k workers in the north east). In preparation, Verizon has given Emergency Work... — read more 

42 days after 39,000 employees walked away from their jobs to fight the ongoing battle to keep jobs in America and to prevent the ravaging of compensation and benefits, Verizon and the Union bodies have wrapped up mediation with the Department of... — read more 

We can only hope!

On Tuesday, Verizon’s website listed more than 200 openings for “temporary service technicians” throughout the mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, where the strike is taking taking place. Locations include: New York City, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Newark... — read more 

3.5 M square feet of offices, housing, direct airport connection, 80K square feet of retail and a 150 room mega hotel... Now we are real-estate developers too. Call Donald.

From everything I've read here how can that be?

Look in the mirror. The only one at fault for your life is looking back at you,

To go home for the night

lets face it. if the strike is going to last another 2 ~ 4 months or more, you definitely will have to cross to provide for your family and have medical insurance. If we are close to making a deal, then crossing now will not affect the negotiation... — read more 

It will be dark and it will be the end of the day.

Working and not fishing

"We're doing a lot of installations but we're not doing the same volume that we had before," Lowell said. "So we won't be driving similar numbers in second quarter that we would in first from an installation perspective." Verizon's Chief Financial... — read more 

I wish everyone the absolute best. It's a terrible world out there. Love to the union and love to the EWAs. Everybody just wants to get on with their normal life. The cheap shots have to stop.

Is it just me, or does it seem like these secret meeting at the Department of Labor have gone on long enough that we all deserve a little information? I understand the purposes of the "gag" whatever-it-is. As a company employee, I am forced to accept... — read more 

Any favorite scumbag RIF'd managers who have come back to make a quick buck during the strike?

Has negotiations gone to sh--? Based on the surge of job postings today. Also, request for extensions of current assignments. Such as pushing out flights hotel etc. Wondering if there was breakdown. Hope is being dashed.

Who are you? The new #2 who was #1. You are #6. I am not a number, I am a free man!

Now, AT&T and Verizon have continuously said that it is ‘uneconomical’ to upgrade most areas and that the solution is to force customers onto their wireless services, (which also gets a number of financial perks, but that analysis is for another... — read more 

LFBO looks good now