IBEW-CWA unions answering back to Fairpoint........ FairPoint strike The workers of FairPoint are committed to making our company competitive and profitable in the rapidly changing telecom market. We’ve been extremely flexible in negotiations for a new contract, offering more than $200 million in cost savings. We’ve even offered a health care package that would save the company more money than the plan they’re trying to impose. The real problem at FairPoint — as we warned before they bought the business in 2008 — is that they were unqualified to take over the telecom system of northern New England. They were a tiny telecom provider based in North Carolina that lacked the financial strength and managerial competence to serve our customers. Soon after arriving, they installed cheap and dysfunctional computer systems that were so poor they were unable to bill customers properly for service — just one of many managerial failures that quickly pushed the company into bankruptcy in 2009. Before FairPoint bought our business, they promised to strengthen it by hiring 675 new employees. Instead, they’ve cut more than 600 jobs in northern New England, leaving long-time employees to try and keep the company viable. FairPoint says it’s the good pay of these skilled and experienced workers that’s holding the company back. In fact, it’s the cynicism of FairPoint executives who want to run a high-tech company with low-wage workers. And as FairPoint’s unqualified replacement workers are proving during this strike, you cannot provide quality service to customers with cut-rate contractors. Peter McLaughlin Benton
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:14:32 +0000
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