Hillary Clinton rakes in Verizon cash while Bernie Sanders supports company’s striking workers
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[QUOTE][B]Verizon paid Hillary $225,000 for speech and poured money into Clinton Foundation. Executives give to her campaign[/B]
Hillary Clinton, a Wall Street-backed multimillionaire, served for six years on the board of directors of Walmart, the world’s largest company based on sales. She remained silent at a time when the mega-corporation was viciously cracking down on workers’ attempts to unionize.
Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, has been unflinching in his support of the labor movement. Sanders has spoken passionately in support of striking Verizon workers on multiple occasions.
The Hillary Clinton campaign, meanwhile, has received tens of thousands of dollars from Verizon executives and lobbyists.
That’s not all. For a May 2013 speech, the corporation paid Clinton a whopping $225,000 honorarium, according to her tax records.
Verizon has also given between $100,000 and $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation, which investigative journalist Ken Silverstein has referred to as a “so-called charitable enterprise [that] has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends.”
Moreover, the Clinton Foundation has partnered directly with Verizon, which is notorious for its vehement opposition to unions. The corporation is a partner in the Clinton Health Matters Initiative, and said it is “proud to partner with the Clinton Foundation.”[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.salon.com/2016/04/13/hillary_clinton_rakes_in_verizon_cash_while_bernie_sanders_supports_companys_striking_workers/[/url]
They probably want her in office to repeal net neutrality and make it easier for verizon to keep fuck over their customers
Why is CWA striking?
[QUOTE=proboardslol;50127926]Why is CWA striking?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://district1.cwa-union.org//news/entry/verizon_workers_to_strike_to_save_good_jobs_quality_service_for_customers[/url]
[QUOTE=Reuters]Democratic presidential contenders Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton joined striking Verizon workers' picket lines on Wednesday after Sanders was endorsed by New York City transit workers in his fight for union support that has largely gone to Clinton.
Sanders addressed hundreds of striking workers in Brooklyn as "brothers and sisters" and thanked them for their courage in standing up to what he characterized as corporate greed by the mammoth communications company.
Employees cheered as Sanders, who was born in Brooklyn, criticized Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) for wanting to take away health benefits, outsource jobs and avoid federal income taxes, calling it "just another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans."
On Wednesday afternoon, several dozen workers picketing a Verizon store in Manhattan cheered as Clinton arrived to show her support.
"This has been going on for months," she said of the deadlocked contract talks, adding that the employees needed all the support they could get.[/QUOTE]
What a deceitful snake of a woman. [url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0XA222]More from Reuters here.[/url]
Tbh, Verizon as a corporation is in the right outsource jobs. It isn't obligated to give jobs to people, it's a for profit organization and if it can save money by outsourcing so be it.
But avoiding federal taxes? Hit em' hard, no one should get away with that.
[QUOTE=LtKyle2;50127968]Tbh, Verizon as a corporation is in the right outsource jobs. It isn't obligated to give jobs to people, it's a for profit organization and if it can save money by outsourcing so be it.
But avoiding federal taxes? Hit em' hard, no one should get away with that.[/QUOTE]
Verizon hoards its profits whilst simultaneously financially ruining thousands of its employees that ought to be working on improving American data infrastructure.
American Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have been largely unregulated for a long time because of the supposed benefits they claimed such lack of regulation would have towards financing their improvement of our physical data lines. Predictably, they instead use those funds to fight against American interests in data policy and infrastructure via lobbying (legally bribing) politicians such as Hillary Clinton.
The United States [url=http://wireless.fcc.gov/outreach/index.htm?job=funding]gave companies such as Verizon 7 billion dollars[/url] to upgrade and maintain our data networks. Instead, they spent it fighting for arbitrary consumer costs (for their own profit), firing infrastructure workers (for their own profit), used it towards foreign investments (for their own profit and further loss of American jobs), and most recently used it for propaganda media against the FCC for attempting to regulate them.
[QUOTE=LtKyle2;50127968]Tbh, Verizon as a corporation is in the right outsource jobs. It isn't obligated to give jobs to people, it's a for profit organization and if it can save money by outsourcing so be it.[/QUOTE]
Yes, we are all aware that companies aren't obligated to support their home nation's citizens because companies are designed to be self serving money making machines.
That doesn't make it right.
[quote] She remained silent at a time when the mega-corporation was viciously cracking down on workers’ attempts to unionize.[/quote]
Associate nearing a 1-year anniversary at that shithole checking in: They still do this. The videos they show new hires are 65-75% demonizing unions by volume, followed by safety bullshit, then other miscellany. They don't want us unionizing because then we wouldn't be replaceable drones. They don't want career associates, they want someone there 6-12 months at most, someone who fucks off before they get any real retirement benefits built up.
Fuck walmart. At this point I'm almost tempted to go shop at Kroger while wearing my vest.
[QUOTE=TestECull;50128131]Associate nearing a 1-year anniversary at that shithole checking in: They still do this. The videos they show new hires are 65-75% demonizing unions by volume, followed by safety bullshit, then other miscellany. They don't want us unionizing because then we wouldn't be replaceable drones. They don't want career associates, they want someone there 6-12 months at most, someone who fucks off before they get any real retirement benefits built up.
Fuck walmart. At this point I'm almost tempted to go shop at Kroger while wearing my vest.[/QUOTE]
Target plays the same videos to new hires. Executive Team Leads at Target go through a training program on how to disperse team members that are talking about unions.
[QUOTE=Aztec;50128136]Target plays the same videos to new hires. Executive Team Leads at Target go through a training program on how to disperse team members that are talking about unions.[/QUOTE]
Undoubtedly a standard practice in that specific segment of retail, hell, retail in general. Unionized workers cost more, companies don't want to pay anything above the bare minimum, so they'll demonize unions as much as possible.
Lemme guess, the target videos are just as awkward as the walmart ones as well, eh?
[QUOTE=TestECull;50128677]Undoubtedly a standard practice in that specific segment of retail, hell, retail in general. Unionized workers cost more, companies don't want to pay anything above the bare minimum, so they'll demonize unions as much as possible.
Lemme guess, the target videos are just as awkward as the walmart ones as well, eh?[/QUOTE]
They are.
I really hope Bernie just rips into her tomorrow for all this shit. He could talk for the entire time and probably still not have enough time to mention all of Clinton's shady dealings.
[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;50127939]What a deceitful snake of a woman. [url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0XA222]More from Reuters here.[/url][/QUOTE]
[quote]mong Democrats and independents who belong to a labor union, 50 percent support Clinton and 36 percent back Sanders, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national poll in March.[/quote]
Color me confused
That's awful that this is the "largest strike in years", know what the last one was? Another verizon strike, in 2011, of similar size.
Fuck American telecomm companies
I hope Bernie brings up all of this shit, panama papers, etc. to really dig into her shadyness.
[QUOTE=bitches;50128020]Verizon hoards its profits whilst simultaneously financially ruining thousands of its employees that ought to be working on improving American data infrastructure.
American Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have been largely unregulated for a long time because of the supposed benefits they claimed such lack of regulation would have towards financing their improvement of our physical data lines. Predictably, they instead use those funds to fight against American interests in data policy and infrastructure via lobbying (legally bribing) politicians such as Hillary Clinton.
The United States [url=http://wireless.fcc.gov/outreach/index.htm?job=funding]gave companies such as Verizon 7 billion dollars[/url] to upgrade and maintain our data networks. Instead, they spent it fighting for arbitrary consumer costs (for their own profit), firing infrastructure workers (for their own profit), used it towards foreign investments (for their own profit and further loss of American jobs), and most recently used it for propaganda media against the FCC for attempting to regulate them.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't just hoard its profits, it pays no federal income tax, and also gets many billions in tax breaks every year, and none of it goes to upgrading or improving, but maintaining. And I don't mean just the hardware, either, but the status quo
[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;50129611]Color me confused[/QUOTE]
Color them stupid.
[quote]According to data collected by the watchdog NGO Open Secrets, 18 (90 percent) of the top 20 contributors to Hillary Clinton from 1999 to 2015 were corporations or firms that provide services to corporations.
On the other hand, 19 (95 percent) of the top 20 contributors to Bernie Sanders from 1989 to 2015 were unions.[/quote]
Best bit in my opinion.
[quote]Perhaps this is not surprising given the Clintons’ history. On their first date, in fact, Bill and Hillary crossed a picket line.[/quote]
[QUOTE=TheTalon;50131391]It doesn't just hoard its profits, it pays no federal income tax, and also gets many billions in tax breaks every year, and none of it goes to upgrading or improving, but maintaining. And I don't mean just the hardware, either, but the status quo[/QUOTE]
Not even maintaining, after hurricane sandy they didn't want to even fix their wrecked shit they wanted to give a lot of places a wifi hotspot and call it a day, the courts had to force them to fix their service
I still wonder how unions have such a bad rep in the US. I heard there were some criminal ties or something like way back but that shouldn't be relevant. Unions are the absolute standard here (not that this is always positive)
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