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RE: "Scabs"
By kfonda on 8/10/2011 10:02:17 AM , Rating: 2
How am I stealing his job? How is he entitled to this job? If I'm willing to do the same job for less money then it is up to the company to hire who ever they want. He can go work at McDonald's.

What it comes down to is a company offers a job at a particular salary. If you don't want to do the job for that salary, don't take the job. If the salary is to low no one will take the job and the company will have to modify their offer until they reach a salary a qualified person will accept.

If the Verizon techs are not satisfied with the offer they should go find another job that will pay them what they want. That will leave Verizon to find new techs. If they can't get new techs for what they are willing to pay then they will have to offer more. This is simple supply and demand.

It's people like you that are driving all of the jobs out of this country. Most manufacturing companies simply can not afford to do business in this country when unions require unskilled laborers to be paid ridiculous salaries.

On top of all of this these a-hole Verizon union thugs are blocking access to Verizon stores and making it difficult for customers to do business with the company. If the company can't do business they have less money to pay the employees. These guys do not care about the company or its customers at all. All they care about is their paychecks. If it were my company I would fire every one of them and start over. I would not tolerate employees that would treat my customers the way they do.

RE: "Scabs"
By thurston2 on 8/10/2011 12:22:37 PM , Rating: 1
These are not manufacturing jobs and they are not unskilled labor. They are not blocking Verizon stores because that is illegal. Finally these workers are not asking for anything more they just want to keep what was agreed upon. So sit there laid off with your guts rotting out like I said karma's a bitch piece of shit scab.

Btw I am not a union member nor do I make anywhere near what they make.

RE: "Scabs"
By kfonda on 8/11/2011 2:22:48 AM , Rating: 2
I don't know about where you are, but here in central NJ the picketers are blocking the entrances the the Verizon stores. I can assure you that the police have been called several times in the last 2 days to have them removed from blocking both the store entrances and the store driveways. Then there is the video floating around the internet of the fine gentleman who put his young daughter in harms way by making here stand in front of a truck to block the 'scabs' from doing their jobs.

Also, I am OK with being called a POS scab. I am more concerned with providing for my family than being called names.

P.S. - why do you feel the need to attack me personally? I've been civil in this discussion since the beginning. you know nothing about who I am or what I do. For instance, you probably did not know that I've been a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician with a rescue squad for 30 years.

OK, I'll let you get the last word in with you next comment.

RE: "Scabs"
By thurston2 on 8/11/2011 8:55:40 PM , Rating: 2
I know you don't mind undercutting someone else to take their job, you are the one who labeled yourself a scab. I am normally a very kind and compassionate person but you and your kind disgust me. Like I said these people are not asking for more they are just trying to keep what they have and you are willing to undermine that fight just to better yourself. Do you think the executives are taking pay and benefit cuts? Why should the people who actually do the work be willing to make sacrifices if the executives will not? I know a lot of union members and they are hard working and highly skilled.

