Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
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With the "great power" of their "superior" intellect and imaginations -- diluted, unfortunately, by blue blood inbreeding -- the Verizon bosses have reached into their billion dollar bag of tricks and come up with a brilliant plan -- divide and conquer. ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Here's the latest article from Labor Notes
Verizon Cuts Off Strikers’ Health Care, as Service Outages Rise
Noisy picket lines are turning away customers at Verizon’s wireless stores as the largest strike in the country weathered a rainy second week. Some service was disrupted throughout the Northeast though the ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
Most of the propaganda spewing from the various Verizon corporate mouth pieces about the contract dispute centers around the cost of health care. Well if Verizon really cared about the cost of health care it would support a single payer or Medicare for all system like most civilized countries have. ...
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
Good story from The Nation about who will benefit and be hurt by the budget /debt deal. Guess what? Workers and the poor are getting screwed, and the Masters of the Universe will get off scot-free.
Congress (might) pass a debt deal [1] this week that would raise the debt ceiling ...
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Health care reform, it’s a no brainier, and it’s called single payer. Why is single payer better than pay-the-insurance-company health care? Simple, insurance company’s “administration expenses†and profits add exorbitant overhead to every bill. Time consuming paper work means additional labor for health care providers and staff. A single payer ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
As the clock ticks down toward a strike Verizon negotiators continue to claim that the IBEW and CWA unions’ demands are unreasonable, even though Verizon is raking in more money than this time last year. Revenue rose 3.7 percent this quarter totaling $24.12 billion. The communication ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Verizon representatives and union leaders from the CWA (Communications Workers of America) and IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) have been negotiating a new contract for several months. It’s coming down to crunch time now. The agreement expires August 2, but all the talking has produced very little ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I just read something that will be no surprise to folks at Verizon and many other US corporations. Employer-provided health insurance (EPHI) isn’t disappearing because people are being laid off and being forced into different jobs. No-siree, corporations and the Masters of the Universe types (MOTUTs) who run them ...
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