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Omaha Steve

(99,660 posts) Tue May 31, 2016, 03:31 PM May 2016

From the 40,000 workers on strike for 45 days against Verizon

The public supported the workers!

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From the 40,000 workers on strike for 45 days against Verizon (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2016 OP

It's not what it used to be. Shemp Howard May 2016 #1

Shemp Howard

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1. It's not what it used to be.

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Tue May 31, 2016, 03:58 PM

May 2016

As a long-time union member, I of course supported the Verizon strikers. And when I passed four of them picketing in front of a Verizon store, I stopped to chat and offer what encouragement I could.

They told me that about 80% of the Verizon customers were ignoring their picket line, and going into the store. I was surprised by that, and not in a good way.

I live in a very heavily Democrat area. The last time a Republican was a mayor of any town around here was probably in the 1930's. And yet most people felt it was OK to cross a picket line.

It's not FDR's party anymore, that's for sure.

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