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I have a parent that was wholly failed by the CWA after 24 years of service at C&W, South Central Bell, and BellSouth. I’m glad that you have an anecdote to share, but please don’t think they’re the norm.

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This is the second time CWA has been used as an argument against all unions in this comments section. Perhaps CWA is just a piss poor union?

It seems pretty appropriate to use CWA's past as an argument against CWA, since the article is about CWA.

Well they haven't actually used their past actions, they've just said that they've been "failed". Seems like if you're on an anti-union bend you could give specifics rather than vague complaints?

> Seems like if you're on an anti-union bend you could give specifics rather than vague complaints?

I'm not the person complaining about CWA. That's the user "packetized."

You don't get to make a "bad apples" argument against unions. It's 100% of the point of unionization that all workers in an industry are bound by its decisions with no recourse. If you find your industry's union to be piss poor, you can suck it up or find a different line of work.

That would be much worse than the current situation for software engineers, where if you find your boss's decisions to be piss poor, you can go get a better offer down the street.

Can you provide some specifics?

We were represented by IBEW at GTE, and when my mother's job was moved to Florida, they got a pretty decent severance deal. Curious to hear how things were handled elsewhere.

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