"What about the bargaining unit employees who have many years of experience?
The expedited organizing that Verizon agreed to covers only a quarter of the wireless unit employees.
At another unit, employees were told to "create stories" to justify an accounting change that would improve Tyco's earnings.
"Now is a good moment to allocate money into stocks," said Joao Carlos Ferreira, a manager at HP Prev -- Sociedade Previdenciaria, a pension fund for the Brazilian unit employees of Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies.
A Wells Fargo spokesman told the Journal-Sentinel that the company began performing thorough background checks on all existing mortgage unit employees last year "due to legal requirements and changes in the regulatory environment".
As the two firms' investment banks were crunched together, more than a third of those units' employees were either laid off or left for rivals.
As the two firms' investment banks were crunched together, over a third of those units' employees were either laid off or left for rivals.
"This is the same organization that holds its bargaining-unit employees to the highest standard of compliance during their Spanish Inquisition-style employee audits," an article in the union's January newsletter said.
"IRS is under a legal obligation to comply with its collective bargaining agreement, which specifies the terms by which awards are paid to bargaining-unit employees," Eldridge said.
