Posted on 08/09/2011 7:43:21 PM PDT by CharlyFord
Verizon Communications Inc. reported a dozen cases of sabotaged cable lines and warned of delays in repairs and customer service on the second day of a strike involving about 45,000 employees.
The telecommunications company said there have been 12 acts of sabotage to telephone lines and to Internet and television services in Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York since the strike began.
Fiber-optic lines were intentionally cut in Tewksbury and several other municipalities on the East Coast, the company said.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Interesting but not surprising from the company that started with its noisy advocacy and funding for feminist political pushes against families and other politically correct pursuits.
Homosexuals have more money for toys since they don’t support a family.
Cutting the Net should be handled by the NSA.
Quietly find those responsible and handle it.
It’s our only voice.
(shrug)
Typical union thugs.
Many conservatives have a disconnect in philosophy when it comes to unions and CEO managers in public corporations.
Unions are intended to provide an employment contract that spells out benefits and employment security for average employees and one aspect is to prevent them from being fired at will. If you agree with that concept then you might also also agree with the concept that CEOs who run the entire show and determine corporate direction, should also be exempt from being fired at will by shareholders. However it doesn’t work that way.
The same CEOs who will fight unionization demand a labor contract of their own that totally protects them from the wrath of shareholders. They get everything in a negotiated contract from high wages to gold plated benefits and none of it is determined by owners, but instead by crony CEO peers on the BOD. This has always been a pet peeve of mine.
IMHO CEOs (of public corporations) should get no employment contract and receive no benefits. The common shareholders alone (not BOD) annually should determine their compensation through a proxy vote. The perks and benefits should be paid for by the CEO not by shareholders.
CEOs don’t like to be treated as the average Joe’s who face such risk. They want it all negotiated and determined by others in their own elite club, and that is why they’ve come to receive such high compensation relative to others.
My pet peeve about the arrangement is that a high percentage of the stock is held by entities like mutual (retirement) funds. The mutual find managers are in bed with the CEOs, BODs, Union leaders, and politicians. They are members of the ruling class.
And now, the stock and retirements are going up in smoke but, the members of the ruling class (include bankers now) are looking out for each other.
There's room for improvement in this system. Maybe the politicians (include lawyers now) will come up with something (/sarc)
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