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A family friend works at Verizon, in an office job (I think it's some sort of finance, but I'm not sure). She is not in the union, and currently not striking, s
by jzymbaluk 11y ago
A family friend works at Verizon, in an office job (I think it's some sort of finance, but I'm not sure). She is not in the union, and currently not striking, so she says VZ has her out in the field doing work on towers until the strike is over. I couldn't believe it, but apparently they have at least some untrained workers going out in the field up on the poles.
- madcaptenor 11y agoI work for AT&T in an office job; a lot of non-union employees got trained last year in the event of a strike that never happened. This happens every few years; the WSJ wrote an article on it in 2012 (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304072004577323690274379410 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023040720045773236...). The general consensus was that none of us would actually be able to fix anything with the amount of training we received; my understanding is that it's a combination of regulations (we need to be able to say that the network will keep running in the event of a strike) and a bargaining chip (although to be honest, if I were the technicians working out there in the field I wouldn't be scared of us).