7 years ago today I was forced into an EWA assignment I really didn’t want to do. I’m long gone from Verizon due to outsourcing. I hope next time there is a strike the Union folks don’t go after the employees that were forced into the assignment and try to get them to participate in a slow down. A lot of us would have been willing
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3 hour nap at Quickcheck? Come on pops all the trucks have GPS tracking now. You must be referring to the 1970s, when you last worked and met up with the techs at the bar yourself at noon, Stop posting, take your meds and go to bed.
Yeah I was one of those guys that handled those backlogged tickets. Also installs that were pushed back for months... folks were grateful for us, esp since we didn't take 1 hr lunches followed by a 3 hr nap in a quikcheck parking lot. Union isn't what it used to be, used to rep local 1022 millstone til Verizon laid me off came back under corporate and thankfully I had fiber training already.
@bdrs+1m7owMci nah, you just imagined all that Hollywood movie fiction stuff all happened, as you probably just streamed ‘On The Waterfront’ or watched it on TCM again. yawn. . . .
Unions treated backfill management like cr-p. They either intentional antagonized people into fights or damaged their rental cars - nailed tires or set on fire. And Yes, these events did happen. To tell you how low Unions are, they used their owns in the strike. They were all given amnesty in the end, except a few management people that were fired.
Let that sink in.
Made an extra 43K that year, not to mention the thousands of hotel points. Please let another strike happen
Lol the union is in a really good bargaining position? Lol you're kidding right .... they were in a great position for the extension neg last summer ... except union membership was losing their mind to work from home ... worst extension/contract we've seen .... inflation was skyrocketing and set to be far worse for 3 more years ... we got tiny increases as of today we already are earning less compared to inflation than end of contract wage increases ... and we have alot of years left under contract now. It's a magic trick ... our wages grew on paper as in how much you take home but overall shrunk big time compared to the ability to buy goods and services. If they waited till now to negotiate the contract ... much better raises with bullets in the chamber to take to negotiations with inflation and buying power and unskilled labor wage increases. Huge loss to negotiate that extension and well time will tell but work from home is going to eliminate call center jobs. Union was foolish ... company was 3 steps ahead here and was a move that shrinks union membership in the long run also... at a time where unions are in demand .... but you hear of nobody looking to add CWA to their workplace. Wonder why ?
Scabs
How was 2013 7 years ago? Was this posted by ChatGpt?
I remember that. Some wireless guys closed weeks worth of backlog tickets but putting in a solid days work. What an embarrassed it is to be union
Good times. Made allot of money.
Don't even utter the word STRIKE. Most of us could not last one week without wages.
I heard abhorrent stories about how the union treated fellow v teamers. Honestly many of them acted like a bunch of a--holes. If that’s what it mean to be union then I the can stay the f#$k away.
their will never be a strike again.by the end of the summer there will be a large surplus in the field,theres no work in cxm or i&r..
There won't ever be another strike again for a few reasons. First, there is too much of a build out in the field for fiber for 5G and FiOS in certain areas where collocators have made a living picking up the customers we didn't connect to. Second, there aren't enough managers and fly-by-night strike chaser contractors to cover a prolonged delay in a market that viciously chases the best network and speeds. Third, states like NY no longer have a 7 week delay in unemployment benefits and you start collecting it as soon as you walk out. In 2016 the union members stayed out for 7 weeks and were about to collect from NY when the union sent out the call to everyone to report back to work the very day that they would have started collecting unemployment. Those games are over now and with that many people would just stay home reaping in state money while the union gets a better deal than what they've been getting plus COVID-19 set the precedent for people hanging out at home that still don't want to return to the workforce. There's no way that Verizon can replace all of that lost skill and will be happy to just keep extending the contracts until the employees who have pensions and enhanced no layoff protections willfully retire which is probably about another 10 years in the future.
Union? What Union? CWA is asleep at the wheel. If you have more than a couple years left, I’d start following your money.
Hail to the Union !
The contract is good till 8-3-26 now so no need to worry for over 3 years . Can you say "Union Strong' !!!!!!!
The point I’m trying to make is if Verizon does press employees into strike assignments the union would be better served by trying to engage employees rather than spitting on them as happened to me and others in 2016. A lot of us came in sympathetic to the union and left feeling very differently
You mean 2016 not 2013.
I've never seen or heard of Union folks trying to get EWA workers to participate in a slowdown during a strike.
I've seen them block entrances. And I've heard of tires being slashed, fiber being cut, etc.
But, since VZ outsourced a lot of jobs/work (first level management) to Infy in 2018/2019 (and continued to outsource over the last 5 years), VZ no longer has a large enough pool of EWA workers to handle the business should a strike occur.
If there is a strike, the majority of managers, directors and above will be forced out into the field instead of their usual cushy "hold the fort" office work. Which will be fun to see!
The Union is in a really good bargaining position.