Verizon technicians and customer support employees are on strike. Verizon would like to change their pension and health care plans. The net effect of the proposed changes would mean thousands of dollars in “give-backs” from workers to an already profitable company.
Do you know why Verizon is doing this? Because the company knows the economy is bad and people are unemployed. What better time to screw the workers.
Verizon is using retired workers and management personnel to fill in. We had trouble with our phone yesterday--service was out for about six hours. Today the phone again did not work. When we did get service, the line was full of static. When we called Verizon, the representative said the problem was in the line and would be fixed in about one week.
Tomorrow I am calling the union and volunteering to help with the picketing. Contact me if you want the number.
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