A strike by Fairpoint workers is still possible but negotiations have not ended, a union spokesperson announced an hour short of the strike deadline this evening. “Make no mistake, this fight is not over,” Glenn Brackett of the IBEW told a hundred or so union members and allies outside Fairpoint’s downtown Manchester office at 11 pm. “We will continue to mobilize until we get a contract that’s fair.”
Brackett said workers should return to work but that a strike could be called at any time. Terms and conditions of the expired contract will remain in effect while negotiations continue.
“The company has been very unresponsive to many of the major proposals we have made,” Bracket said, adding that the company’s attitude has been dismissive and antagonistic.
He explained that the company had turned down a union proposal that would have saved the company millions of dollars.
Fairpoint workers are represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Communications Workers of America.
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