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Teamster Jeff

(1,598 posts)
Tue May 24, 2016, 12:52 PM May 2016

Verizon's Summer Scab Camp

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The students, decked out in fluorescent green Verizon ponchos and company-provided steel-toed boots, are training to do the work of nearly 40,000 striking staff who walked off the job more than a month ago. They are replacement workers, known in the labor movement as "scabs," and those who have a fear of heights or lack the strength to lift 70-lb ladders in the field will be re-assigned to call center duty or other tasks.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/inside-verizons-spring-break-for-strike-breakers?utm_term=.isWK1L80Gg#.npJ1x8brYz

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Verizon's Summer Scab Camp (Original Post) Teamster Jeff May 2016 OP
Because lifting 70 pounds... scscholar May 2016 #1
I'm sad that you missed the point Teamster Jeff May 2016 #2
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