This Strike Needs to Be a Line in the Sand
Facing a massively profitable corporate enemy with deep pockets and plenty of political connections, union members are defending their hard-earned rights and standard of living against outrageous company demands.
Verizon is demanding huge givebacks on benefits and job security, and, perhaps worst of all, it is insisting on having the authority to reassign workers anywhere in the company’s network, which extends from Virginia to Massachusetts, for up to two months at a time.
The company offers “family plans” for its cell-phone customers, but its demand for mandatory long-term transfers is the ultimate anti-family plan for workers. It’s part of Verizon’s long-term goal of “Uber-izing” its technicians and line workers into low-pay sub-contractors – or doing away with the landline division altogether.
(via occupywatchdog)
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