Word: verizons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...retirement in 1990 after a 30-year career with a New York phone company, he expected his loyalty to be rewarded. But the firm he left is very different from the one he joined. Once owned by AT&T, New York Telephone Co. became NYNEX and then, in 2000, Verizon Communications. And at a time of ferocious competition in the industry, some of the benefits he says he was promised when he joined in 1959 have either not materialized or, most recently, been slashed. Retirees have to foot an ever larger part of the bill for their health care...
...BellTel group, Jones uses the Internet and e-mail to send daily newsletters and legislative alerts to the group's 110,000 members. He's also proven himself to be skilled at corporate politics, successfully orchestrating a shareholder proxy vote that limited compensation and "golden parachutes" for Verizon's top executives. "Verizon has deep pockets and can afford lobbyists in Washington to push their agenda," Jones says. "The Internet is the only tool we've got to get our message...
...Verizon spokesman Eric Rabe says the company hasn't reneged on any promises?and that the board is paying attention to Jones. "He's phrased a few things that we've looked at and then put in place, either in part or wholly," Rabe says. That's cold comfort to Jones, who today is a disillusioned man. When he started his career, he says, "you would never have even questioned their motives or thought that they would not always take care of you. That trust is now gone...
...cause to complain about being locked out of the party. "The top of the house shouldn't continue to award itself when the folks on the lower end of the ladder suffer," says C. William Jones, a retired telephone-company worker in Easton, Md., who was so incensed that Verizon cut his pension and health-care benefits that he helped start a protest group called the Association of BellTel Retirees. It now has more than 100,000 members and communicates mainly online...
...portable subscription" audio and video. I loaded Neil Diamond's new album that I got from Yahoo! Unlimited, where I have a yearly subscription ($60/year). Though I never purchased the album directly, I am free to carry it with me. Better still, this is one of the only Verizon Wireless phones that lets you set your own music as a ring tone, and I could select not just MP3s and WMAs, but also protected Yahoo! content...