FairPoint Accuses Striking Workers of Intimidation, Disrupting Telco Operations
FairPoint Communications said Tuesday it's “concerned” that employees affiliated with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), who are currently on strike, are disrupting services and intimidating employees and customers (http://bit.ly/1ouXtgZ). More than…
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1,700 CWA- and IBEW-affiliated workers went on strike Friday in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont (see 1410170025). Some of the striking employees “have followed and intimidated contractors and employees, blocked our trucks, surrounded our workers on job sites, trespassed on customer property and engaged in conduct that impedes the work FairPoint is doing to meet customer needs,” FairPoint said in a news release. The unions said in a statement that they will “continue to work hard to ensure that our labor action is safe and respectful to our neighbors and friends throughout northern New England, but we will not let the company use these spurious and unfounded allegations to take the spotlight off of the company's unfair practices.”