Posted on 08/15/2011 12:12:44 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
No vandalism. No violence. No Harassment. No Obstruction. No intimidating. No threatening. No Blocking. No Trespassing. Those were just a few of the restrictions placed on members of the local 827 IBEW bargaining unit, their dependents, minors, households and relatives in an injunction signed by NJ Superior Court Justice Mary Beth Rogers last week.
Rogers also set restrictions on picketing, allowing no more than six picketers at the entrance to any Verizon owned property at any one time. Picketers were also advise that no more than two picketers may picket a private residence of a Verizon employee and must stay more than 10 feet away from any Verizon individuals performing work on a private residence or business. Rogers’ decision also specified picketers may not have animals present or block any ingress or egress to prohibit movement of a Verizon contractor vehicle.
Striking workers have also been barred from entering inside of any Verizon properties unless they are performing their duties as Verizon employees under the direction of Verizon. Rules were also set for recording, video taping or photographing any individual at any Verizon or performing company.
Ironically, section J is one that would normally go without saying, yet is clearly stated:
”Dropping, spreading, throwing, placing or otherwise causing nails, glass, cinder block, spikes, feces, clubs, rocks, screws, or puncture devices of any kind, or other object or debris to be thrown or strewn in, on, or about Verizon’s driveways, parking lots, entrances, exits, vehicles and adjoining roads to any of Verizon’s property or at any work site.”
The order took effect immediately after its filing on August 11th. IBEW 827 agreed to the proposal and posted a $50,000 bond for payment of incurred future damages.
The injunction was sought by Verizon after a series of incidents across New Jersey and other states affected by the strike. In Toms River, Verizon reported FIOS cables were sabotaged and cut, causing an outage and Toms River Police reported striking workers placed nails at the entrance to the company’s Hooper Avenue office.
However, Verizon spokes person Lee Gierczynski said many of the employees in the strike are obeying the law. “The vast majority of our workforce is dedicated, hard-working and committed to doing what’s right for our customers. Unfortunately, there are few bad apples who are tarnishing the reputation of the entire union-represented workforce. ” he said “Our company is taking steps to ensure those who have engaged in illegal and reckless actions they will be dealt with appropriately. Rest assured, we will deal firmly with anyone we can identify. We fully believe those on strike have a right to legally picket and protest. Some, however, have gone to extremes.”
“I’d love to see the people who post here, their reactions if the company they worked for decided to open up for bid their position in the company.”
Many people work in jobs that are exactly like that. This has been the case for many decades.
I read an article the other day where a woman was having some phone work done and picketers were outside her home picketing - I’ll try to find the article and ping you.
Unions have been denying the people their voice by sabotaging the net.
DOD needs to hunt them down.
” IBEW 827 agreed to the proposal and posted a $50,000 bond for payment of incurred future damages.”
“future damages.” HMMMMMMM......
SCAB: Mangy crust like lesions on animals, especially sheep. A lower form of life who justifies scabbing (stealing) another person’s job due to a strike.
Really, the UNION has customers? This is very interesting thinking....
I could not allow myself to live in an environment like that. Union thugs coming on my private property??? I'd be in jail for a long time!!
Judges in the Loony Toons NE allow this????
Sometimes you must stand up to the ‘corporate tyrants’ and their greed or we’ll all be working for the wal-mart types.
I wish the ‘Strikers’ well.
Union Strike: an opportunity to lose your job, a gamble, a game of chicken.
Welcome to the free market. When the company can find someone to replace me at a cheaper rate and swallow what it will cost to do so, they’re welcome to do it. I’ll find someone else to whom I can provide greater value.
That’s called efficient allocation of labor in economy, and is what I believe in. Not in “I’m entitled to my job”.
You sure you’re on the right site ? Perhaps DU would be better suited to these sentiments.
Don’t you get it ? Noone is entitled to a job. You have a job by providing some value to the employer. When someone comes along that can provide better value they should have that job. *You* have to continue to compete, instead of expecting someone to keep that job in existence for you.
Speaking as someone from MA - this is the land of dead ted, john media must censor the tea party kerry, deval all illegals should get free everything patrick (clone of HUSSEIN)and other assorted nitwits from ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, and CT, - no surprise for those of us who live in NE!
“Remember … someone will always work for less.”
Yeah, and someone will always sell you stuff for less if the other guy wants too much for it. It’s great how markets work in the real world, where greedy unionistas don’t think of their job as a lifetime entitlement.
That statement was from the company management.
We’re talking ‘blue collar’ workers here, $26.00/hr sounds fair to me. Read recent example...
I am hired as a buried wire tech (slave work) at 12.64 in FL. I do not have a college degree but have Cisco, Lucent, FUJI Cert. and plenty of fiber experience. I am only taking this position to get in Verizon as they are only hiring in house for fiber network field techs, just hired 400 of them in house and pay scale max out at 26.00.
I could care less if all the strikers lost their jobs. If they want to risk their personal livelihood as well as their families’ well-being by striking, so be it.
I work on an annual contract basis. Each year my employer has the option of extending my contract for one year with a new salary. My employer has the option to extend the contract, I have the option to decline the offer and take my talents elsewhere.
(Yeah, and someone will always sell you stuff for less if the other guy wants too much for it)
If that means closing down a US factory and moving to China... no thanks, been there, done that.
We need our manufacturing base back for any hope in a recovery here.
Working for a large corporation is not an entitlement. What it should be is a sharing of respect from both labor and management for the good and growth of the company. What we have here now is greed of Wall Street and the race to the bottom for the workers.
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