Eric Rabe
Eric Rabe
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It's our fervent hope that we will be able to negotiate that contract and get it over as quickly as possible. We continue to believe that we've made progress and that the end of this negotiation process continues to be within reach. We believe we can reach an agreement quickly and get workers back on the job. We want this strike to be over.
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I honestly believe we are in a situation where this could come together in a matter of hours if people agree that it's time to do that, but we haven't been able to get that kind of an agreement from the unions. Frankly, we think we're there. Obviously there's not complete agreement on this.
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The status of the bargaining is that we are continuing to talk. We continue to frankly plug through some of the more difficult issues that confront us. It's become sort of an intense, exhausting sort of a process. We're working through the issues one at a time.
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Some other services may be slower as well, like repair or installation.
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It's not competition yet, but . . . it may turn out to be yet another way in which people are competing with us.
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She is not on our payroll at this point.
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I'm sure there have been cases of that and I'm sure it will get worse tomorrow as normal business volumes build up.
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As this strike goes into the second week, the objective of this is for us to be able to be the most effective competitor in the wireless sector,
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As far as I know, that's a suit against her, and we have nothing to do with that.
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We sell our service to customers who call us, ... Our view is that if people don't want to be called, they won't be good sales prospects anyway.
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We have seen some positive movement on some of the issues, but this is a situation with a lot of moving parts. Those issues could change as we move to other issues.
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We're in a position that could results in a new contract, and the end of the strike and getting people back to work.
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We're looking forward to nailing down the details as quickly as we can. We'll continue to talk until people collapse and even then we could talk in our sleep if we have to.
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We're looking at a variety of ways to address the demands of the marketplace. We're also very conscious of program contracts.