Who's "overpaid" at Verizon? [telecom]

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By Alan Maass

PITY THE poor Verizon executives. They're dealing with a strike by union workers who as individuals earn several times more in a year than the median income for a whole household--but they just keep demanding more and more, don't they?

That's the line that Verizon bosses are feeding the corporate press in the hopes that ordinary people who read it will resent the workers, and not them. Not surprisingly, the company's side of the story is showing up verbatim in news reports.