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Verizon Accused of Slighting Copper Infrastructure
High Fibre writes "Regulatory hearings in Virginia raise questions about Verizon's stewardship of its copper infrastructure, with workers accusing the telecom of cheaping out on maintenance in Virginia due to its preoccupation with its FiOS network. Ars covers the fracas and gives more time to Verizon than the local media do. From Ars: 'During testimony given before the Virginia State Corporation Commission last week... workers painted a dire picture of the state of Verizon's copper network, saying that the equipment required to make repairs — including tools and cable — is not even available.' Verizon disagrees, saying that while it's a challenge to manage and maintain both networks, they are not neglecting their copper infrastructure." A union official gave written testimony about the Verizon problems, presumably so that individual workers would not have to testify in public and open themselves to retribution.
"Imagine how stupid this argument would sound if you were talking about SEC violations, theft, murder, etc. 'There's a law against it, that means we don't need anyone watching out for employees.'"
Probably not nearly as stupid as you sound making his point for him. Everything you listed there is policed by a government agency. Tell me why we need a private, vigilante force doing the job for us? Right, thanks for making it so easy chump.
"Salaries are too high for union workers? Before you heap any scorn on them, why don't you worry about the idiot boards of directors who pay CEOs insane amounts,"
Orrrrr, those of us with sufficient mental capacity can be upset about two different things AT THE SAME TIME!! That excludes you obviously, but not most of us. It's like fucking magic.
Listen shill, it's clear you're a union fuckboy. That's fine, everyone has the choice to sell out or not, but stop pretending that unions pull their weight these days. That's a lie not even a union gal like you can pull off.
Personally, I have much more experience with corporations doing that. Are you sure that's not a typo?
Yep, reminds me much of ... every frickin' corporate job. The "can't be fired" comes from managers protecting their sycophants (or family, or co-conspirators, etc), and the people who actually do the work are not the one who get rewarded for having done it. (With rare exceptions.)
Whereas white collar criminals, like the ones running Enron and so forth, are part of a different kind of organized crime framework, one not directly linked to people likely to be indicted and/or sent to jail. They're too rich you know (<cough>Paris Hilton</cough>), or too well connected (<cough>Scooter Libby</cough>), or work for some corrupt government, or can pay more for better lawyers, or ... you do know that large chunks of the investment money in the world come from laundered money, including the money controlling most any corporation, right? I think you must be living in some other decade. We could only wish that current corporations were as clean of corruption as current unions (after decades of FBI investigations, at the behest of management which was allowed to hide its own crimes).
Try this reality kool-aid for a change... you'll start noticing how much of what you've been told is propaganda in support of the corporate powers-that-be.