Hundreds of members of the Communication Workers of America came to New Rochelle last night to send a tongue-in-cheek “Happy Valentine’s Day” greeting to Hugh B. Price, an Independent Director on the Verizon corporate board who resides in New Rochelle, NY.
In addition to sitting on the Verizon Board of Directors, Price is a professor at Princeton University, Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and an Independent Director at Metlife. His direct compensation from Verizon in 2010 was $130,000 in fees and an additional $130,000 in stock awards.
CWA 1103 along with 1105 and retirees protested outside of Price’s home on Trenor Drive with this message “No More Sweet Heart Deals for Verizon Executives”.
Happy Valentine’s Day Hugh Price
Since you gave such a Sweet Heart deal to Verizon Executives maybe its time you give the workers the ones who build this company what you owe them instead of breaking our hearts.
Forbes Profile, Hugh B. Price
Mr. Price, 69, is a Visiting Professor and Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, an independent research and policy institute. Mr. Price was President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League from 1994 until 2003. During that time, Mr. Price restructured its board of directors, developed a new mission for the League and established its research and policy center. Following his work at the National Urban League, Mr. Price was Senior Advisor of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP from 2003 to 2005 and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Economic Studies Program at The Brookings Institution from 2006 to 2008. He accepted his current position at Princeton University in 2008. Prior to joining the National Urban League, Mr. Price held a variety of positions in journalism, law and public interest organizations, including serving on the Editorial Board of The New York Times. Mr. Price has served as a director of Verizon since 1997 and was a Director of NYNEX Corporation from 1995 to 1997. He is a member of the Corporate Governance and Policy Committee. Mr. Price is also a director of MetLife, Inc. (since 1999) and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (since 1994).
Wanna know ho’s got the fat
Wanna know ho’s got the fat cushy jobs, no show ones at that, WITH Vz pensions? The guys on the Executive board of the CWA that’s who. Yeah, Joe Connelly, Joe McAleer and company. These guys worked like a year with the company and have been on the union dole for 30+ years. NOW, they collect a Vz pension, for doing nothing buy “union” work for decades, AND continue to draw 6 figure union paychecks. They do DIDDLY for the rank and file. Who’s SCAMMIN’ who?
Tough Guy
Hey Inman,
Lets see how tough you are,post your address and name and lets see if your ass can cash the check your mouth seems to write.Why hide behind a false name tough guy,you have alot to say,lets see how credible you are.Just another blow hard with alot of pent up anger and jealousy.Why waste our time.I know just the kind of person you are.Does Mommy know you are on the computer? Figured.Jackass!!!!!!!
Anything else, Ralph?
Yeah, I’ll post my address Ralph, want the SS # too?
By the way Mr. Transparency, what’s the “M” for?
Another genius.
Union Protesters Target the Right Guy
Why does Verizon’s CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, make 536 times the median Verizon worker’s pay (according to AFL-CIO.org’s CEO Salary Database in 2010 Ivan Seidenberg received $18,166,006 in total compensation in comparison to the median worker who received $33,840)? Because Hugh Price, who sits on Verizon’s Board of Directors, and others like him authorize it. And in doing so Hugh Price and other members of Verizon’s board legitimize Executive Salaries that most working class people would agree could not possibly be warranted.
And these are the same guys who wouldn’t think twice about laying someone off in order to save the company $30,000 if it weren’t for the union.
Who gives a sh*t?
Welcome to Community Organizing 101.
Obama Class Warfare in da’ Hood!
Awww….Da’ poor witt’lle union workers wit, benefit packages up the ying-yang, are sad and lonely cause da’ big bad man makes lottsa’ money and has a better house than you do?
Awww… Boopsie. Ya’ threw your witt’lle rattle out of the crib?
We’re not a happy baby anymore?
Don’t worry, we’ll pick it and give it back.
Or maybe baby want a new one?
Eewwww…. and does baby need a new diaper too?
Come to my neighborhood with that shit.
Please.
I’ll be wearing a few red shirted morons on my bumper.
Inman, you seem very
Inman, you seem very bitter… How come? Is it because you are making minimum wage somewhere and don’t have benefits/pension, etc? I would imagine that is the case with your threat you made of what would happen in your neighborhood… I take it that your neighborhood isn’t exactly Trenor Ave. in the north end, huh? Hopefully, your vocabulary will improve beyond the baby gibberish that you’ve displayed in your last post… You sound ridiculous.
Au Contraire
Not bitter at all, “chic”.
It’s not about Tenor Ave, Park Ave or Madison Ave. It’s about not feeling at all sorry or concerned, for a mili-second, for the concerns of union thugs like your pals here, who show up in neighborhoods and pull this crap.
It’s right out of the Obama playbook, where he was a third year associate Chicago hack lawyer, coaching Acorn on how do the same thing on the front lawns of bank presidents, in order to force them to give home mortgage loans to people who couldn’t pay them back if they lived to be five hundred.
Take a look around, chic. How’d that work out for everybody?
Don’t like the deal at your overpaid union job, where you sit around on your ass reading the Daily News in a truck for 3 hours, in between wrapping electrical tape around some phone wires?
Hate the CEO cause he’s smarter, better educated, lives in a nicer neighborhood?
Quit.
Who gives a shit.
Hello again Inman, I do not
Hello again Inman, I do not work for Verizon at all… However, I am in a union, having come from the private sector, where there was plenty of newspaper reading, contrary to your theory. I do not hate the CEO for the neighborhood they live, as I don’t necessarily think it’s nicer… Inman, do not get your words twisted… You seem to have the insecurity thinking any CEO is smarter, and has a better education… Point proven, you seem to love using profanity by your constant use of the word sh!t… Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
Huh?
Is that all you got?
Hey Inman, I’m quite
Hey Inman, I’m quite surprised you took so much time to take to the blogs today… Shouldn’t you be up on Eastchester Rd/Mayflower Ave robbing people?
Brilliant on point retort
Hey “Chic”-
Look up “non sequitur” in the dictionary ( a big fat non-union book, with lot’s of words and their easily understood explanations) and get back to me.
I thought we lost you there
I thought we lost you there for a while Inman… You were pretty quiet for the last few hours… I thought you were hiding out from Ralph M… Look, I’d love to sit here and read you the stats on Ivan Seidenberg, but I’d much rather save that conversation for someone that seems to know a little more about the issue at hand… In the meantime, it’s so much more fun to see you get so mad about an issue you seem so detached from. I love that you keep responding back to this “chic” like the tough guy that you are. Though,I think Ralph M would love to hear a reply… I think we’d all love to see you respond tough guy 🙂
Brilliant on point retort
Hey “Chic”-
Look up “non sequitur” in the dictionary ( a big fat non-union book, with lot’s of words and their easily understood explanations) and get back to me.
Benefits of Unionizing the Private Sector
Inman–considering that consumer spending makes up 70% of United States GDP it would be beneficial for the health of the overall U.S. economy if workers in the private sector (since the private sector is by far the largest type of employer within the U.S.) were rewarded with annual salary increases to at least keep up with the cost of inflation, food, and energy prices.
But most workers in the private sector have had their wages actually decrease over the past thirty years. Not coincidentally union membership has been decreasing while CEO pay has been rising astronomically.If you really can’t see the big picture here I really do feel sorry for you.
Pot calling the Kettle black
How much does Patrick Welsh make? You know the Verizon worker who is chairman of the Westchester County Working Families Party (WWFP). I’ll bet he’s at the $100,000 threshold. Don’t know if they stiil do but at one time the WWFP charged a fee to become a member. Sounds like a typical union scam. Verizon workers complain about executives salaries but how about the union executives salaries and perks? Seems like the pot calling the kettle black to me.
Hmmm. That’s strange.
Beginning in 1998, Patrick Welsh’s “Working Families Party” ( the only political party in America that requires dues) and Acorn, shared the same address on Nevins Street in Brooklyn.
Acorn formally disbanded last year for lack of funds.
What a coincidence.