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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 but my wife would love to be working.[/quote]

Right, as another PP said,your wife is choosing not to work.  She could stay at her job at Verizon and ignore the strike.  If she doesn't like Verizon, she can find another job.  If everyone leaves these shitty companies, they'll up their benefits to attract more talent.

By the way, I'm a professional, non-union employee who has a pension.  It's not great, so I supplement it with the company's 401(k) and a personal IRA.  I only make $70,000 a year, so I'm hardly the CEO type your wife rails against.  If I don't like a job or its benefits, I move on, or supplement myself (like with the IRA).  See how easy that it?[/quote][/quote]

You can leave and move on, what about the people that work in the call centers in rural areas that dont have other jobs to go to? What happens when that town dies because the employer leaves? Who fights for those people if everyone who doesnt care just goes to work?[/quote]

Then you move.

My husband is military, don't even tell me it's not possible.  As a trailing spouse, I've done this many times.[/quote]

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