How much did everyone lose in the "adjustment?" A union would have never let that happen. Time to organize is right.
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The OP is a union troll trying to s—er employees into believing the union can stop the company from changing the Commission plan. It has never happened in the history of the Wireless industry (do your homework, the facts are out there). But hey, if you want to try based on the misrepresentation of an anonymous union poster, go for it. ZUJB23k-5art, you are absolutely right. A union will not help, but it will piss off Verizon. If your goal is to punish the company even though you have no confidence in the union, then go for it. Be prepared for an even more toxic work environment where employees turn against each other and the union and company fight it out. The union will likely lose and the atmosphere may never recover, but you will have succeeded in sticking it to the company. Personally, I think if you are this bitter, it would be more healthy to look for a job elsewhere.
Your job can be replaced by a website. What kind of protections can a union provide when you bring no unique skill?
Yeah go ahead and look at their layoff board and keep BS'ing about how great it is at AT&T:
https://www.thelayoff.com/at-and-t
Full of posts complaining how little the union does.
I don’t think joining the union would really help with increased pay or by lowering quotas. But I do know that Verizon is aggressively anti union. It would be worth the union dues just to piss Verizon off and send a message that retail is tired of being treated like garbage.
Verizon raises quotas and metrics and if you try and sell with integrity you are at risk of being coached out cause you are not slamming customers with useless c-ap like hums.
@4sie: Yeah, AT&T employees totally got shafted with guaranteed raises every 6 months that totally didn’t offset union dues...
I've worked at 3 diff stores in GA, AL, and FL. All in the south but in my 6 years, I've definitely heard talk about unions and I personally don't have experience with them. But in my 6 years, i sure have met some previous att employees, and they're not shy in saying that union was not beneficial for them at all.. not sure why people think they would be?? instead of wondering, just ask them.. are you that uncomfortable with your coworkers that you can't simply ask them?? gtfoh our GM and DM let us talk about unions so taht we're iformed.. but no better info than from some who actually were in them.. just ask them! i really hope we don't go union, i'm not tryna pay those id--ts my money for nothing
ATT reps are doing perfectly fine and they also dont have to be a woman to get promoted.
WOW
So SMs, b4 replying out of just anywhere, “LOOK” at their latest coctract & then lets talk. Their orange book explains everything pretty damn well....oh and why go far? Ask out fellow wireline workers who did a strike 4 yrs back & won an amazing contract. Why isnt no one talking abt that?? Bcz DUH, thats facts & true...nice try!! Now go back to doing nothing & find reaons to coach reps for dumb stuff...lmao
Still trying to get the union into my store
Not true. The union has absolutely no say over commission plans at AT&T. Here's a dirty little secret. In 2002 when the union (CWA) first got in at AT&T, the union gave AT&T a sweetheart deal. In return for the company not fighting the union, the union agreed not to push hard during negotiations. After 17 years of numerous union contract renewals, AT&T still has the right in its union contracts to change the commission plan whenever it wants without union interference. This is one of the biggest reasons why the union has not been able to penetrate Verizon Wireless. The union has not been helpful to employees at AT&T Wireless.
If you guys want to be just like AT&T so bad, you should first ask how much they’re making. At our store, we get AT&T employees coming in for interviews all the time because they don’t make as much as we do. As far as I’m concerned, they can keep their union and their lower pay. I’d rather be unrepresentated and keep all my pay and not have to give a portion of my check to a union that can’t guarantee C R A P.
Grass ain't greener at AT&T liar.
Verizon SMs are actually doing something: “Coming on Lay off board & motivating employees NOT to form a Union”. AT&T has a Union, we never hear such things from their side. So its true that Verizon is just brainwashing people not to form it.
Union trolls get off the wireless board. You worthless people already messed up the Verizon Communications board.
@nsg: A union may not be able to stop a store from closing, but it would at least give us a dog in the fight. Store closures are an inevitability — we’ve known about it for years — we should at least make it more difficult for Verizon to do quietly.
Your right, that adjustment would just go into the unions pockets until Verizon decides to close the store. The Union cant stop the stores from closing.