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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Verizon workers in the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) and CWA (Communication Workers of America) rallied for good union jobs on Saturday July 30. They demand that the profitable and highly subsidized telcom company stop trying to take workers’ conditions back to the 19th century.
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
That’s no thermometer, friend. Look over your shoulder and you will see a familiar smirking face. Yes, that’s right, it’s your union boss holding the tub of lubrication and watching exuberantly as the company boss gives it to you good.
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Here in IBEW Local 827, the foreplay between the ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
So it looks like we have avoided a strike at Verizon. Both The Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) have extended the current contract while they continue to discuss the issues.
The scuttlebutt is that we’re looking at a four-year contract and maybe ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
As the clock ticks down toward a strike Verizon negotiators continue to claim that the IBEW and CWA unions’ demands are unreasonable, even though Verizon is raking in more money than this time last year. Revenue rose 3.7 percent this quarter totaling $24.12 billion. The communication ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Verizon representatives and union leaders from the CWA (Communications Workers of America) and IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) have been negotiating a new contract for several months. It’s coming down to crunch time now. The agreement expires August 2, but all the talking has produced very little ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I just read something that will be no surprise to folks at Verizon and many other US corporations. Employer-provided health insurance (EPHI) isn’t disappearing because people are being laid off and being forced into different jobs. No-siree, corporations and the Masters of the Universe types (MOTUTs) who run them ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Do you ever scratch your head and wonder what the hell these Masters of the Universe types(MOTUTs) are thinking, and how the frak they come up with some of the moron infused ideas that dribble from their over endowed cranial areas? Peon that I am, I guess I just ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The contract between Verizon and the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) that has kept labor peace at the communications giant for the last five years expires in August. The unions represent more than 70,000 workers at Verizon, and even though ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Who owns our experience? I know for me I spend a lot of time thinking about things that I want to write, unfortunately I often never get around to writing them. Part of this is my own lack of discipline, but there is another more ominous reason. It ...
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