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Originally Posted by Vegas Joe
But then I heard that the company was actually trying to do pretty draconian things to the work force including making them pay $3000 a year in premiums and deductibles for insurance that they now get for free.
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Then Verizon is stupid. What Verizon should do is drop employee health care completely.
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Originally Posted by Vegas Joe
While free medical and dental is probably pretty liberal and few people get it free, a $3000 deductible is pretty draconian.
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Why, because it makes you take ownership and responsibility for your own health and well-being?
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Originally Posted by HappyTexan
Profits up 2%..is that really "good money" ?
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Yeah, baby, 5g Network here we come (not).
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Originally Posted by shorebaby
I believe land line phones are dying, see above for the data. Many of these striking workers support land lines. Some of the folks I do businesses with use land lines, some strictly cell, its a mixed bag. Numbers don't lie, landlines are dying.
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For now.
Those numbers will be reversed as you do the Recessionary Slide over the remainder of the decade.
About 30% of American households will get Food Stamps to subsidize their cell-phone use, but about 20% of Americans will have to adjust their living accommodations and share housing with other families if they want cell service.
[quote=AnneWest;20359736] Suddenly having to come up with $300/mo would be a hardship on any family.
Yeah, cutting the cable, cell and internet services and not eating out at McDonald's 37 times a week would be poverty worse than Somalia.
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Originally Posted by JazzyTallGuy
The irony here is Germany has twice the percentage of unionized workers as the United States but German corporations REFUSE to outsource key manufacturing technologlies and jobs?
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It's a little more complex than that.
Germany has a high-percentage of companies that provide unique products. Those products require intensive capital investment for start up and it simply is not feasible for a developing nation to invest that kind of capital.
Additionally, it takes an highly skilled and trained work force to make those products, so that is another reason they cannot be outsourced.
You do have a few companies like that in the US, like Xtek Inc, but they are few and far between and certainly don't make up the percentage that Germany has.
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Originally Posted by anifani821
So the employer is supposed to eat the cost of healthcare insurance? WHY?
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Yes, it's a ******* Dung Sandwich with drizzled urine.
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Originally Posted by Darkatt
Actually, Health insurance started being offered to workers in WWII as a benefit to get workers.
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After FDR enacted a Wage & Price Freeze to keep rising wages from driving up prices.
Yes, as incredible as it sounds, wages actually rose during the Great Depression. Part of the cause of the Great Depression was a massive reallocation of labor and resources due to technological advances like the assembly line which increased efficiency and productivity, but resulted in job losses. But again, that was a minor cause.
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Originally Posted by Quick Enough
I cannot understand why posters post things they don't have much knowledge on.
landline use has been dropping for several years.
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Blah, blah, blah, that will reverse in over the course of the remainder of the decade, so don't starting writing the eulogy just yet.
You have families who had two wage-earners grossing $100,000+ who now still have two wage-earners but are barely grossing $35,000 and in a few years those families will have only one wage earner barely earning $25,000
They ain't gonna be able to afford the $60/month cell plan, but they will be able to afford a $16 land-line.