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Can someone better help me understand this. From my understanding it works like this:
A group of people work for verizon, they work in one big organization called a union, they try to use their massive force and dip out of work all at the same time. They believe this will hurt the company so bad that they have no choice but to give them what they want so they come back to work. (what they want being: pay raise or at least not a pay cut, more benefits, retirement pensions)
It appears to me that all these people dipped out of work and now verizon has people who actually want to work and earn money to support their families working in the place of those who chose to leave to try and make a point, thinking they are too good to be replaced.
Now these guys are realizing they're expendable and they're going around harassing people, making threats of violence, pushing their kids in front of cars, getting in front of cars themselves (they're upset they're being hit by cars, explain that one to me), and they've stooped low enough to sabotage some of verizon's equipment.
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Do I have it wrong? I've never worked in a union (and I never will after seeing how these people behave) Can someone break it down for me? I always though in the United States as a business owner you own your business. If you feel that you can't afford or straight up don't want to pay as much as you're paying you can cut pay. If people don't like that they can find new jobs, right? Now one forces anyone to work for verizon. Am I wrong?
Is there anyone in a union that can explain to me their point of view on this? I am always open to other opinions and I honestly want to understand the unions better than I do now. As of now they seem like a bunch of bullies/thugs/cry babies when they don't get to run another person's company.
Can someone better help me understand this. From my understanding it works like this:
A group of people work for verizon, they work in one big organization called a union, they try to use their massive force and dip out of work all at the same time. They believe this will hurt the company so bad that they have no choice but to give them what they want so they come back to work. (what they want being: pay raise or at least not a pay cut, more benefits, retirement pensions)
It appears to me that all these people dipped out of work and now verizon has people who actually want to work and earn money to support their families working in the place of those who chose to leave to try and make a point, thinking they are too good to be replaced.
Now these guys are realizing they're expendable and they're going around harassing people, making threats of violence, pushing their kids in front of cars, getting in front of cars themselves (they're upset they're being hit by cars, explain that one to me), and they've stooped low enough to sabotage some of verizon's equipment.
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Do I have it wrong? I've never worked in a union (and I never will after seeing how these people behave) Can someone break it down for me? I always though in the United States as a business owner you own your business. If you feel that you can't afford or straight up don't want to pay as much as you're paying you can cut pay. If people don't like that they can find new jobs, right? Now one forces anyone to work for verizon. Am I wrong?
Is there anyone in a union that can explain to me their point of view on this? I am always open to other opinions and I honestly want to understand the unions better than I do now. As of now they seem like a bunch of bullies/thugs/cry babies when they don't get to run another person's company.