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From "Hoot & Holler" to "Hunt and Headache" [telecom]
When I was a kid, large junkyards used a private line service known as a "Hoot and Holler" to advertise their need for parts: whenever my dad needed a bumper or tailpipe for the VW, we'd go looking...
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The Verizon Strike: 'This Is One of the Last Big Fights' [telecom]
BY STEVEN WISHNIA "This is not just a strike against Verizon," Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Chris Shelton told the more than 1,500 people who packed the block outside a Verizon...
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The Verizon Strike Is Not Just About Wages. It Is About Power and Domination Over Workers. [telecom]
BY ALEX GOUREVITCH Bruce has worked construction for Verizon for nearly thirty years and he is on strike. Walking a picket outside a Verizon Wireless store, he explains why: "I love this job. It's...
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Verizon Pain From Strike Seen Growing; Wells Fargo Cuts Estimates [telecom]
By REINHARDT KRAUSE Verizon Communications is starting to feel the pain from the ongoing strike by nearly 40,000 wireline workers, according to Wells Fargo, which on Friday lowered its Q2 and...
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Verizon strikers denounce federal mediation and CWA news blackout [telecom]
By Steve Light and Alan Whyte A World Socialist Web Site Verizon Strike Newsletter reporting team spoke to striking Verizon workers on the picket line in New York City and Virginia. Workers expressed...
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Hold Onto Your Hats: North American Pay TV Forecast Is Stormy [telecom]
By Laura Hamilton, CED, 05/20/2016 North American pay TV revenues are predicted to fall by $13.5 billion between 2015 and 2021, according to Research and Markets' new "Digital TV World Revenue...
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Why I'm on strike against Verizon [telecom]
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam is baffled. Recently, he walked up to a picket line and told striking workers, "This makes no sense to anybody. To be honest, I'm not sure why you're out here." Well, it...
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Growing anger amoung Verizon strikers [telecom]
A sellout contract is being prepared by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) as the strike by 40,000 Verizon workers on the East...
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AT&T Lobbyists Fail to Block Competition in Missouri [telecom]
by Karl Bode One of the major reasons that AT&T is imposing usage caps next week (May 23) is because the company continues to face limited broadband competition. And the company faces limited...
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Who's "overpaid" at Verizon? [telecom]
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...
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CWA agrees to federal mediator, prepares sellout of Verizon strike [telecom]
By Samuel Davidson After telling striking workers for weeks that it would not accede to Verizon's demands for a federal mediator, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) agreed to mediation...
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Lawmakers slam Frontier for bad phone and Internet service [telecom]
By Meg James Frontier Communications said Wednesday that within the next 10 days it should resolve the backlog of phone and Internet service problems that cropped up during the company's tumultuous...
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An Unneighborly Building That Hums With Lifesaving Capacity [telecom]
By David W. Dunlap From its extraterrestrial presence to its security-state name, PSAC II, New York's new emergency answering center, is not neighborly. But you'll be glad it's there. Yet it may save...
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Switchboard BD-72 connections to the PSTN [telecom]
If you're familiar with the Army surplus switchboard type BD-72, I need your help. I know someone who wants to connect one of these switchboards to the PSTN; i.e., to have a dial tone on one of the...
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Verizon striker run down as New York cops protect scabs [telecom]
By Sandy English On Monday afternoon, a van carrying strikebreakers hit a Verizon worker picketing in front of City View Inn on Greenpoint Ave. in Long Island City, a neighborhood in New York City's...
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