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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Wife is the breadwinner in our family and is currently on strike.'They are on strike so their pensions  they have worked hard for don't get frozen and call centers in the US don't get closed. There are call centers in rural areas that provide jobs for people, these employed people keep rural towns going. Verizon wants to close these centers and outsource to other countries. 
This is worth fighting for.
She has no been paid for over a week now, meanwhile the person doing her job is getting $78 an hour, twice what she makes. We also lose our family health insurance at the end of this month.

Sorry your spouse is working extra days/hours OP [b]but my wife would love to be working[/b].[/quote]

OP here.

your wife is CHOOSING not to work.  according to my spouse, there are quite a few union employees who are crossing the picket lines to come to work every day; your wife could be one of them.

jobs today in corporate American suck for a lot of people.  there is a lot of job insecurity out there.  many, many companies before Verizon have totally outsourced services to India.  my spouse, who is also the breadwinner (although i do work FT), has survived multiple rounds of layoffs at Verizon and a possible sales of his business unit, which would have likely ended in job loss.  we have had our share of stresses from Verizon.

generally speaking, there are (mostly) no pensions and health care is very expensive even if provided through work.  why should Unionized employees have it so much better than everybody else?  i agree that the job market should universally be better than everybody else.  i am not a fan of corporations generally, but holding people hostage through a strike is NOT the way to make that happen.  [/quote]

because if everyone had that attitude then nothing would improve.[/quote]

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