perfidy

I've been hearing rumblings recently about an impending worker strike at Verizon here in New England. The Boston Globe has the story. Fairly unremarkable as strikes go: copayments and worker insurance payments will rise; layoffs are expected in the same year that Verizon executives gilded their parachutes; and the workers feel they have been subject to unreasonable demands in negotiation.

Through sheer coincidence, I have been privy to some great conversations on both sides, worker and management, in the course of my daily commute. I guess I'm just lucky. Seen on the commuter train, on the back of an IBEW worker from Verizon: a Contract Negotiation 2003 Commemorative T-shirt with the union logo and local on the front, and on the back the best slogan ever: "Can You Hear Us Now??"

Union, yes indeed!