Thirty-nine thousand Verizon workers on strike in US - World Socialist Web SiteAfter 10 months of working without a contract, 39,000 Verizon workers walked off their jobs Tuesday morning at hundreds of locations on the East Coast of the United States. The workers are opposing stagnating wages, attacks on pensions, increased health care costs, outsourcing and the telecom giant’s demand for license to transfer workers across wide geographic areas for extended time periods with little or no advance notice.
Thousands of workers set up picket lines in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC and other cities from Massachusetts to Virginia. The opposition of workers to the demands of the company, which makes $1.8 billion in profits each month, is part of a growing mood of resistance among workers in the US and internationally.
Its a new trend called permatemping, where corporations are using temporary and independent contracts, as loopholes to avoid labor laws,
This is the disgusting part of "free enterprise" of "unfettered capitalism."
Profit for capital becomes the over-riding concern. The other factors of production are given short shrift...and the unfettered capitalists call it...the way things should be.
I'm a capitalist...and all for free enterprise. But if this is the way it is going to be...screw it. I'll support socialism before this.
WSWS has a point in the capitalism greed.
Thirty-nine thousand Verizon workers on strike in US - World Socialist Web Site
"I'm an independent capitalist, but by god I'll support socialism". :roll:
Verizon has business here. Market forces decide. Nobody here will work for Verizon if they don't pay competitative wages.What is the hourly rate of a Verizon worker ? The major reason most contracts are not being settled is do to rising costs of Obamacare which hits union workers the hardest . And I'm certain Verizon isn't paying USA wages and benefits in Singapore .
Verizon has business here. Market forces decide. Nobody here will work for Verizon if they don't pay competitative wages.
Maybe your Country should demand $15 an hour minimum wage and I'm sure US corporations would stop outsourcing jobs .
Try this:
I'm for individual freedom...but if "individual freedom" starts to mean someone can take a dump in the middle of a restaurant if they choose, I abandon the notion."
Jeez!
Setting minimum wage levels is the root cause of problems. Cheaper to outsource.
Setting minimum wage levels is the root cause of problems. Cheaper to outsource.
Donald Trump to the rescue:lamo
Education, skills upgrading, productivity increases could perhaps justify $30 per hour. My 2 cents worth.Actually, workers wanting enough wages to live is the real root cause.
If our workers would only be willing to work for 65 cents an hour...we could keep everyone employed.
Really.
Try this:
A free market capitalist would NEVER, under any circumstance, support socialism.
Jeez!
And very costly to American workers and taxpayers .
Stop complaining about how Americans companies do business in foreign Countries and deal with raising YOUR standard of living THERE ! In the USA the population has gone up by 15 million in the last 8 years and we have 4 million fewer jobs because of outsourcing .
If that offends you , that's your problem . GO TRUMP !
Right!
65 cents an hour puts us right in contention with the labor class of any country on Earth.
Why can't these stupid, greedy workers of ours finally get that!
Amusing how a foreigners taking American jobs is bitching about what Verizon is paying them ! If you are NOT happy with the pay scale move on to one of those jobs in Singapore that pay better !
Actually, you choose to falsely represent yourself. Whether on purpose, or obliviously, is anyone's guess.What I actually said was: "I'm a capitalist...and all for free enterprise. But if this is the way it is going to be...screw it. I'll support socialism before this."
Yeah, a free market capitalist CAN get fed up with excesses...and abandon it.
Anyway...anyone who would support capitalism, or socialism or communism, or any "ism" no matter how out of control it gets...is being a jerk.
I choose not to be a jerk.
Compare your GDP per capita with ours!
Huh???
Amusing how a foreigners taking American jobs is bitching about what Verizon is paying them ! If you are NOT happy with the pay scale move on to one of those jobs in Singapore that pay better !
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?