He said it has trained thousands of non-union workers. . . .
The term is “scabs,” okay?
Corporation wants more “flexibility” = ability to use and abuse workers to increase shareholder profits.
Verizon has taken billions (yes, with a B) in public subsidies to do work that it’s failed to do, but says we should take at face value its claims of good-faith negotiation. Uh-huh.
That bit about more workers having to “temporarily” work more jobs further from their home base is particularly interesting to me, because it suggests a “new, modern” way of doing things: basically get rid of the local workforces maintaining (and occasionally building) their infrastructure, and rely on emergency teams sent from some other state to handle failures when they occur. (This is the company that back in the 90s was fined close to $200 million for failure to respond to customer complaints in a timely fashion; seems not much has changed.)