Posted on 08/16/2011 4:42:16 AM PDT by markomalley
To me, the most interesting thing is that these emails are leaking out.
That tells me that there is some dissent within the ranks.
This Jon Remington is an absolute idiot. After he drives away all their customers, Verizon won’t need any employees. Real smart there fella. Oh, and the poor union slobs have to pay 7% of their health care. Oh, the horror. I hate unions.
“Beat them with a tire iron” is what caught my attention.
They are upset because the company is asking them to pay more then the 7% portion towards health care they contribute now( the workers).
Really? I went from no contribution for many years to currently 330.00 a month...Evidently they think they above every other American worker who has seen they portion to pay raise over the past few years....
Mr. Remington needs to meet Messers Smith and Wesson.
I see the picketers in front of the Verizon Wireless store when I head to lunch. Most of ‘em are too lazy to even carry a sign. And they’re gone in a few hours because no one is there 4 hours later when I drive home.
It does appear, however, that the parking lot is as full as it normally is so I don’t think business has been interrupted much.
Oooooo, 7 whole percent. I pay 50%.
A new mobilization is to get everyone in the habit of calling repair several specific times a day. For example, some at 10am others at 11am etc. to keep a steady and disruptive volume of calls slowing the companies ability to take real ones. Have everyone dial *67 first if they are nervous about their number being tracked.
*67 tells the phone company to not forward caller ID information to the person called. But the phone company still knows who made the call. Now I might make some allowances for the usual stupid union goon not knowing this, but these are phone company union goons. If you make that call to the phone company, they know who you are.
Scumbags, bite the hand that feeds them, especially in tough times!
Poor union thugs, they are soooo starving, mostly fat from being lazy.
Notice how fat and tattooed are the “poor” protesters?
RICO anyone?
I know labor unions have some “special rights” but I think it is long passed the time for this to change.
I see the picketers in front of the Verizon Wireless store
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While I am not a Verizon subscriber, directly, (Straight Talk and Verizon have some ‘arrangements’) I think the counter to the thugs is visit a Verizon store whenever practical, especially when they are ‘picketing’.
Of course, since I am in Virginia, they will not be the ONLY people in the area armed, be it with pipes, guns, flashlights etc.
In a right to carry state, the goons have no idea whether or not you are armed so will probably (more or less) keep their distance...
Sounds like conspiracy to me. We would do jail time for sending such an email.
“If they are you may first beat them repeatedly with a tire iron then advise them that we are on strike.” This will of course, improve our image with the public....... Oh, yeah.
Typical union thinking...absolutely clueless about public sentiment.
As a former Verizon employee who was a member of CWA 2204, 2222 and 2201 in Virginia until I left in 2006, I can say categorically that there's always dissent within the ranks. The vast majority of the time, those who make the biggest fuss and draw the most attention are those who work the desk jobs. By and large, most outside plant personnel don't pull this kind of stunt because they just have to go back out and fix it later.
Now, that's not to say that there aren't some serious jerks within the outside plant forces but by and large the real trouble makers are desk jockeys. For example, the vast majority of the Union leadership comes from the Directory Assistance and Call Center forces while the outside plant forces usually only have a representative or two. Want to wager a guess as too who usually starts most of the picket line trouble, gets up in the contractors' face and causes most of the damage to the plant in the field? It ain't the field forces...
Slight adjustment here. Yes, these are "phone company goons" but they're not technicians so they wouldn't know about the #67 trick not working. As I've stated before, most of the true Union thugs are from the Call Center offices and other internal work pools. They don't know how to do anything more than what their screen tells them. There are ways around the #67 limitations which all techs know, but this idiot obviously isn't a tech.
The places to watch out for are those where there's a local call center or Directory Assistance building. Those people are the trouble makers, the rest of the crews aren't that bad to deal with as long as you're straight up about things. I will say this though, if you go looking for trouble, you will find it no matter where you go. Be cool about things and keep your calm and you won't have a problem but go in there with an attitude and you're liable to come away bloody.
I am in Northern Va and yes, I agree, the ‘trouble’ area would be the remote switching centers, then call centers.
I was referring to crossing at the Verizon Stores, where the ‘protestors’ don’t feel threatened either.
Yes, I agree, do not go ‘looking’ for trouble, but I have absolutely no problem walking into a store, through and past the ‘picket line’ just to ‘look around’ and show solidarity for the NON UNION types that are working.
If ‘they’ want to approach me in a threatening way, they can be my guest, and like a true CCW carrier, I will not be intimidated or back down, but then again, not ‘looking’ for confrontation ... I know, I am being ‘contradictory’ by being there with no ‘real’ business, but, I am exercising my rights as a citizen to go unimpeded to a public establishment.
Wow. Criminal admissions there
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