Posted on 08/22/2011 8:01:55 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
The Communications Workers of America’s (CWA) strike against Verizon is over. For all of their tough guy talk, in the end they were just another bunch of chumps sold out by their union bosses. The CWA got nothing, nada, zero from being on strike for two weeks and Verizon saved tens of millions by not having to pay the strikers.
While the rank and file suckers were committing felonies that could yet send some of them to prison, their leaders were getting a lesson on economic realities from Verizon….
While the CWA was getting nowhere but closer to the day that IT would have to start paying strike benefits of $10 million a week to its members,a few nitwits were risking prison time sabotaging telephone service to a Pennsylvania State Police barracks…….
For twenty nine hours the Troopers’ phone lines were useless because someone went into a locked Verizon underground vault near the station and killed the power to the system. “….need for a key to get into the vault, …..evidence to believe a striking CWA member committed the crime.
“It’s About To Get Ugly”? for you maybe
“….Dormont Pennsylvania at least one striking worker wore a shirt (union made of course) with “It’s About To Get Ugly” on it. CWA picketers have put chains across Verizon parking lot driveways to stop workers from entering or leaving in direct violation of a court order which of course means nothing to striking Obama supporters who always want what they want when they want it which is always NOW!
Threatening National Security
In New York City ….violent nature of the CWA strike, the NYPD has been forced to assign Terror Task Force vehicles to escort Verizon workers and protect them to and their work locations…..
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yeah, like all bullies, they caved in like a sandcastle, didn’t they?
I was in the CWA for over 30 years,every strike ended this way and every time they settled for what they went out for and the union officials told the rank and file that that they held the company to the fire and won big time.
Reagan showed them how to do it.
It’s like this. You don’t have to work there. Esp in a tight job market, don’t take your job for granted.
I’ve always wondered how much union dues are per month - do you mind telling that? And other than them strongarming the company for benefits or pay increases, what did you get for your dues?
I think there should be a federal law madating that union dues have to be paid by the acutal member not collect by the employer (private OR public)
Also it should be prohibited that signature cards establish a union. A secret ballot or a union is not real.
My ex husband was paying the IUE $75 a month in 1970. What did he get for it? Nothing that I could see.
His wife was in a major panic, realizing that they would have to start living off of savings.
I wouldn't doubt that most of the sane rank and file pressured the bosses to let them get back to work.
My dad was a union employee when I was a kid, and he worked at a place that went on strike every 3 years or so, and some of the long strikes really hurt us and took years for us to recover from financially.
The union leaders claimed that they would bring down the telephone system in New York City and in two weeks, no phone service would be available.
When the management and office workers went into the central offices, they found at least 25% of equipment had been marked "Maintenance Busy" and never repaired. They repaired all of that equipment and delivered better phone service after the first two weeks than they had ever had.
Not only that, they were able to reduce future equipment purchases. And after 6 months, the union settled for 50 cents an hour over what the system offered.
Yeah, a great big victory!
Wow, $75 would have been a lot in 1970~ my parents house payment was not a whole lot more than that back then!
“I wouldn’t doubt that most of the sane rank and file pressured the bosses to let them get back to work.”
Let? How free is any individual that must ask another private citizen to “let” them work......Union members are slaves who claim to be free while the rattle their chains.
Same here (different union). Amazing how that happened every time.
The union I was in (not CWA) our dues were 2% of our gross pay.
...other than them strongarming the company for benefits or pay increases, what did you get for your dues?...
We had decent pay and good overtime rules, that's about it. I must have joined after a "peak" because we lost pay/benefits after every contract.
the last I remember it was 2 hours pay I think a pay period. it came out of you check so you never saw it kinda like Social security. what we got for the dues is what everyone gets...the union polices the low level supervisors keeping them in line so the upper level don’t have to do it.
What I don’t understand is why union members don’t realize that they are paying for nothing. Laws already cover all workplaces in regard to safety issues and overtime rules. I realize they had a place at one time but to me they are just like mafia - strongarming the legal owners of a company.
a number of states it is a closed shop...your in the union or you don’t work! in right to work states it’s peer pressure and the fact that a lot of union people have a spouse that works somewhere else so they have money coming in and it’s a free vacation to them they don’t think about the money they lost and will never see...
I’m pretty sure that pay by member as opposed to being deducted was one of the new rules in Wisconsin.
If I remember right, so was ours! Recovering what the union took was one reason lots of overtime was so popular.
That’s when my eyes started to open to the truth.
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