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Verizon Employees End Strike
An anonymous reader writes "Verizon today announced that the approximately 45,000 wireline employees represented by the CWA and IBEW that have been on strike will return to work beginning Monday night, August 22nd, without new collective bargaining agreements. Since the strike began two weeks ago, Verizon has been battling criminal acts of sabotage against its network facilities and union picketers intimidating non-union replacement workers and illegally blocking garage and work center entrances. One union picketer even went as far as to instruct his young daughter to stand in front of a Verizon truck to illegally block it from coming back to a Verizon work center in New Jersey. Verizon said the wireline employees now on strike would be working under the terms of the contracts that expired on Saturday, August 6th. The contracts will be extended with no specific deadline for achieving new collective bargaining agreements so that the parties can take the time required to resolve the critical issues, the company said."
You should take a look at how much the Union Reps earn and what their headquarters look like. They certainly are not running at any deficit. I wonder where they get their money?
Greed is a round-a-bout. With many ways to get on.
Southerners have been throwing a tantrum since the end of the Civil War. They really, really liked that free labor. They've been scheming up way to keep getting labor for free. Every time you hear the term "Preserve Southern culture" translate that as "free labor for White Southern businessmen."
The latest scheme to return free labor to white Southern businesses is "privatized prisons" These privivatized prisons sell prison labor.
If you mean "solved" as in a combination of bust-ass costs, a snotty sense of entitlement, and a black hole in your national budgets, fine you solved it. Stay where it's solved, and we'll keep being backwards, thanks.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel