Thursday, August 4th, 2011
The Verizon bosses are getting scared.  Union workers, on the other hand,  are getting ready to rumble. With only a few days left before the contract with IBEW and CWA union members expires, Verizon brought out the heavy artillery (at least by wealthy suburban standards) to “protect†its posh corporate ...
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
Good story from The Nation about who will benefit and be hurt by the budget /debt deal. Guess what? Workers and the poor are getting screwed, and the Masters of the Universe will get off scot-free.
Congress (might) pass a debt deal [1] this week that would raise the debt ceiling ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
I try not to hate people. It really is a lot of wasted energy in most cases, but there is one small sector of society that I just can’t seem to find much love for.  I have a hard time seeing that great universal energy flow that ...
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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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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Hey I finally found the weapons of mass destruction and guess what? They were right here in the good ol’ USA all the time. They’ve been hiding in plain sight, and quite frankly I’m sad to say that only a country that has been blinded by a government and ...
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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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