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45,000 Verizon Workers On Strike Over New Contract
Trouble with your landline? If you have Verizon, especially on the east coast, it might not be the best time to have it fixed; The Daily Mail reports that "Forty-five thousand Verizon workers from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., are on the picket line Sunday as labour contract talks fizzled. More than a fifth of the wireless giant's work force has gone on strike as contract negotiations for the wireline division broke down last night."
Unions are on their deathbed for a damn good reason: they don't benefit companies, and they don't benefit union members. The only party they benefit are union administrators. What they ultimately are, and what their single purpose is, is (what should be an illegal) restraint of the free trade of labor.
Does someone have a gun to your head forcing you to work at these places you're complaining about? If you don't like it, find another job or start your own company. If you lack the marketable skills to do either of those, suck it up or go work for the government, the only part of the economy which retains a significant union workforce (US: 36.8% vs 7.6% in the private sector, with predictable results).
Also, I don't understand how "'big wireless' is being greedy and forcing workers to settle for less and less over time" - don't union members agree to settlement offers?
Grow a pair and learn to compete!
What oppressive tax burden? Taxes are at historical lows and are lower than comparable developed nations.
The rest of your claims are similarly disconnected from reality. Economic experts agree that the problem with the economic stimulus was that it was too tiny, thanks to right-wing opposition. The majority of U.S. debt is owned by U.S. citizens, not by China; and China holds only a little bit more than Japan. No "shovel-ready" projects involved the SEIU, since SEIU is a service industry union, not a construction industry one. Etc., etc.
If you choose to remain ignorant of basic political facts, please choose also to remain silent in the political discourse. Thanks.
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