Dan’s Papers August 12, 2011 danshamptons.com Page 68 midnight. The workers I talked with said it’s all about corporate greed. According to them, Verizon cleared $1.8 billion in profit last year verizon strike under the old contract, paying their CEO $43,000,000, including bonuses and perks. By Stacy Dermont Now the company is trying to freeze pensions, Monday morning as 45,000 of Verizon’s while taking away medical coverage, four paid landline workers went on holidays, merit pay and job C O M M U N I C A T I O N S strike across the Northeast, security. six local workers were out I asked where I might early on the Bridgehamptonapply for the job of CEO, Sag Harbor Turnpike. but the guys said I had too Pictured here are Dave much common sense for the Wilson from Southampton, position. Mike McKenna from Sag Hopefully, the strike will Harbor and Robert Cangelosi be over and a fair contract from Southampton. worked out by the time you After weeks of negotiation, read this. Verizon workers’ contract Long Island needs its Verizon workers on strike expired on Saturday at phones and people working!
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couldn’t land a teaching job, got my mom pregnant and took the first civil service test available, he got the highest mark out of 29,874 applicants, but that just made him the best test taker to walk a beat in New York City in the bleak mid-winter of the Great Depression. Back to the early 1950s, pulling into those private driveways, was my father returning to an estate he once knew, re-visiting an old classmate? Or was he still fascinated by what would have happened had his family retained the wealth they once had? He did seem to resent his life as a worker bee-policeman; what good was the four years of Classical Latin and Greek on the job, except for surprising the Greek diner owner who couldn’t get over this Irish-American cop reading his Greek daily newspaper, or maybe he could engage some alleged perpetrators in a Socratic dialogue, more likely, a monologue? So why did this ex-rich boy buy a 1937 Packard six-wheel limousine? He did have the cover story that it was the only car big enough for all his seven kids. More likely it was a symbol of class and privilege, and it was a beautiful piece of American manufacturing. It did not look out of place in Muttontown, maybe it was owned by an aging heiress who loved the elegant three foot tall chrome radiator, topped by a winged lady with outstretched arms, but we knew this was not its home. As the old Packard rolled out of shady Muttontown, the closer we got to home, the trees were as old as our house: four-year-old saplings lined the neatly manicured streets. Rolling into our driveway, we heard the last strains of, “I know all the tricks that the cowboys know, ‘cause I learned ‘em all on the radio, yippee yi yo ki yay...Terence!” Terence M. Sullivan is a practitioner of the Bardic tradition of Ireland singing a capella, in Irish and English, from Carnegie Hall to Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor. He writes verses and prose inspired by the natural beauty that surrounds Sag Harbor and the natural madness and humor of Manhattan where he lived for 35 years.
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