FairPoint workers fear cuts to benefits

Thirty-year telephone company worker Darlene Stone campaigned against FairPoint Communications' takeover of Verizon's northern New England operations, fearing the company was biting off more than it could chew.

[Noreaster]

Corporate speak never fails to amuse and amaze me. Calling the taking away of wages and benefits from the very people who knew this was a bad deal from day one an "opportunity" is an insult to anyone with a brain. Reminds of the day the deal was announced, and touted by a Verizon spokesperson as a "win-win" for everyone. Ha ha ha-very funny.

[no dial tone]

Spin offs are the new Corp. Shell Game folks.This is a fiasco and a mega fiasco is coming with these same fools(public service board) approving the spin off of an aging Yankee reactor in Vernon.They will also fill for bankruptcy,freeing Entergy of clean up costs and leaving Vermonters with a very costly radiation pit.

[dino]

Maybe these politicians and state regulators that ok'd this deal in the first place should get off their arses and force verizon to reengage with fairpoint to make this work. Let's face it Verizon forced this deal to shirk all rsponsibility to provide the utility service they were required to provide. Mr. Leahy nad Mr. Sanders use your influence with the Prez to ensure we are not left high and dry and the employees are not screwed over by a crooked deal the states should have never allowed. This is the fault of the regulators that OK's a deal that had no chance to work. Fairpoint had no business taking on this huge deal they simply weren't big enough or advanced enough, but still the ultimate blame lies with the government who should have known better.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

dino wrote:

Maybe these politicians and state regulators that ok'd this deal in the first place should get off their arses and force verizon to reengage with fairpoint to make this work. Let's face it Verizon forced this deal to shirk all rsponsibility to provide the utility service they were required to provide. Mr. Leahy nad Mr. Sanders use your influence with the Prez to ensure we are not left high and dry and the employees are not screwed over by a crooked deal the states should have never allowed. This is the fault of the regulators that OK's a deal that had no chance to work. Fairpoint had no business taking on this huge deal they simply weren't big enough or advanced enough, but still the ultimate blame lies with the government who should have known better.

Good point. The PSB is a cracker-jack group! If our State Auditor had any real courage he would look into the operation of that part of state government instead of diddling around with the small potatoes he tries to make a big splash about, like surveys of schools around joint ventures that might save small bucks.Since an arm of state government did such a poor job on the Fairpoint affair it would seem reasonable to expect the public's "watchdog" to actually do some "watchdogging".

[Joe Shlabotnik]

The filtered word is:cracker.

[been there done that]

fairpoint legacy companies have no pensions and no medical upon retirement , wages are so called market based contrivances and are lower than local companies in same business, NNE employees have much to lose