23 day...pretty impressive guys. The rate and which people crossing is way higher than EWAs are slinking away. You have to factor in this workforce is a fraction of what the usual staff is. Im guessing this will end pretty soon. vz is taking the... — read more 

Should be quiet on this board today as all the union folks are supposed to be out picketing all the stores. If your reading this, and your union, I hope your out on the lines reading this on your Verizon phone, using Verizon's network and supporting... — read more 

http://groundswell.org/7-lies-about-welfare-that-many-people-believe-are-fact/ Don't be afraid or ashamed to do what you have to do to survive these next few months.

One day longer, one day stronger. Stay strong my brothers and sisters. In the months to come you will see what your sacrifice has earned you.

You can "wage the war on the man" and fight along side your "brothers and sisters" all you want. But you do realize that once 5/20 hits, it would all be in vain since none of you will exist? There is no strike once everyone is eliminated. What's the... — read more 

Announcement Thursday night or Friday. Not many give backs, per se, but we lose big on the job sec issue. They are gonna move us around as much as possible in an effort to get us to take the next huge EISP. Lube up. Call and scream No Deal!

Executives are now trained to rip people off. This writer spent a number of years in the business world during the 1980s and 1990s, as corporate America was transforming itself from a customer-driven set of industries to a greed-driven and... — read more 

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/05/03/new-research-links-cell-phones-to-health-issues-for-infants-and-children/

Honest question. What percentage of the Union members are sick of being home and would prefer to be working.

i actually love this frickin job. It's awesome. I get to swear like a sailor, be on my own, work with a great bunch of guys... And fix real problems. You Union guys have THE LIFE. If you lose this negotiation and are fired, you'll never find another... — read more 

Because the last thing they want to do is bring another future member into this world.

I've replaced 10 NIDs with Voicelink. Customers love it. Every time I install one the customer will say, "Why the heck didn't the regular crew tell me about this? They just go to the box on the corner then drive off."

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I was very disappointed to see on youtube some EWA workers cleaning and polishing coax cable in an improper manner. Just wondering if the new hires will know how to correctly clean the coax cable? Our customers are depending on you!

It’s the final day of Round One play in the Worst Company In America Thunderdome, so why not start it off with a showdown between the two largest — and most-hated — telecom titans around! AT looking to kill off those remaining grandfathered unlimited... — read more 

Union is in for a dose of hard core reality tomorrow at the Shareholder meeting. The pickets they are planning outside the NE are going to be laughable. No one outside of the NE give a crap about organized labor. VZ is ready to ride this out through... — read more 

"The process used by the Central States Pension Fund to distribute benefit cuts among participants is flawed and results in an inequitable distribution of benefits cuts," according to the comments submitted to Treasury by the Pension Rights Center... — read more 

. . My bad. I forgot the union people are unemployed with no work or benefits.

Scabs on long Island look like they would rather be getting their wisdom reeth removed than doing what they are. They are absolutely useless too. Search youtube cleaning coax part 2 . absolutely priceles!!!!!!

Over the past several years, Verizon workers have been filing applications with the U.S. Labor Department for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) benefits. Employees who have lost their jobs as a result of offshore outsourcing can file for benefits... — read more 

I am forced into an EWA assignment and have no choice. If I do not do it I get fired. I use to feel bad for the union and agreed with them in some of their grievances. However, driving my van tonight, and a union thug with his 10 year old kid in the... — read more 

Verizon just got a court ordered in--nction in NJ

All too often, management likes to stir the pot in contract negotiations by putting their so-called “final offer” on the table. With this type of proposal, the Management team is implying that the bargaining process is at an end. They may even add... — read more 

That is why so many college graduates are working at starbucks.....wake up. White explained that the SEP is calling for a workers’ government to transform the major corporations into publicly owned, democratically run utilities, operated on the basis... — read more 

Here's the instructions from the CWA executive staff: Trust us, we know what we are doing. don't worry, it will be over soon. We have your back, everyone is safe. Keep your boot on their necks! They are close to giving up. When we have something for... — read more 

I don't know for sure when the 'all clear' message for everyone to go back to work is going to sound, but I'm hearing as soon as tomorrow and "practically 100%" by COB on Friday. Everyone hang in there -- won't be long!!

Always a date for something. This one is 20 May 2016 for contract ratification and if not ratified is this the date that VZ begins to replace Union members with the new hires? Lets face it...no ULP called and Impasse declared with the Last, Best and... — read more 

NEW YORK — Verizon Communications Inc. and two labor unions representing about 39,000 striking landline workers rejected one another’s latest proposals toward a new contract Monday, though they remain open to a new round of talks.

http://www.redstate.com/diary/laborunionreport/2011/04/07/cwa-members-seeing-red-after-union-bosses-blow-dues-money-on-themselves/ These issues always pop up again.