Verizon wants to bust the union

[DAngelo136]

7. They need to focus on the things they want-a response

Then you don't know what's really at stake here.
This goes beyond just wages and benefits; the goal of Verizon management is to monopolize the wireless spectrum.
By engaging in willful neglect of the wired sided of the business ( which the wireless is connected to, by the way) it will force those customers to have no other option but to go to wireless.
Wireless itself, is NOT a new technology; ever hear of "radio"?
Verizon has made promises to rewire the network to the "information superhighway" and reneged on those promises all the while increasing fees and bills without anything to show for it.
Here's a video by Bruce Kushnick of the New Network Institute on how Verizon is systematically dismantling the Public Switched Network Infrastructure and Technology (PSNIT;emphasis on PUBLIC) and ripping off the public and government.
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Ever wonder why you never got FiOS?
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/the-great-verizon-fios-ripoff_b_1529287.html)

And wireless isn't the miracle it's touted to be.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/how-wireless-hype-is-hurt_b_1463527.html)

The bottom line is that Verizon and the other telecoms want to end Net Neutrality by any means necessary. Privitizing the network is going to be their workaround
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/2014-the-end-game-in-tele_b_4533510.html)

In the end, this is not just about wages and benefits. This is about corporate fascism taking over and dominating communications...for starters.