While Verizon drags its feet in union negotiations, claiming “financial constraints” and “organizational optimization,” here’s what’s really happening:
They’re not cutting costs — they’re cutting competence.
The layoffs don’t target inefficiency — they target visibility.
The people let go are the ones who show up, ask questions, and deliver. The ones who stay? Career survivors. Risk-averse lifers. Managers with no EQ, no backbone, and no critical reasoning — just networks of protection and PowerPoint decks.
Now the union is supposed to believe that this same leadership class — the one that oversaw all this dysfunction — is negotiating in “good faith”? Spare us.
You can’t build trust when the house is already hollow.
You can’t fix culture when your core is rot.
And you sure as he-l can’t negotiate value when you don’t even recognize it.
If Verizon really wants labor peace, it should start by fixing its own leadership problem.
Until then, every bargaining session is just damage control dressed as dialogue.