FairPoint workers go on strike over benefits, pensions

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By SARAH PALERMO

Monitor staff
Saturday, October 18, 2014
(Published in print: Saturday, October 18, 2014)

The sun was shining, a light autumn breeze was blowing, but as he walked in a small oval on a South Street sidewalk, James Lemay of Manchester was fuming mad.

Lemay, a central office technician for Fairpoint Communications, is one of more than 1,700 workers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont who went on strike yesterday.

“They wanna take my pension that I worked for for 28 years. The company is owned by vulture capitalists,” he said.

The employees – members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers – are demanding that the telecommunications company resume negotiations for a contract the two sides have been haggling over since April.

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1. K&R. More and more and more and more and more.

We need the entire country doing this.

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2. Management has still not learned the Market Basket lesson.

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3. Yeah

The hidebound : "The floggings will continue till morale improves" model is still very much prevalent. I've seen it all too often. You'd swear that after so much evidence against their own hubris they'd see the light: but the teachable moment never comes.

We just have to wait for them to die off.

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4. K and R.