FairPoint to Rep. Pingree: FairPoint Acted Cooperatively
FairPoint Communications assured a lawmaker it hasn't been uncooperative in dealing with its striking employees. "We have made numerous formal and informal efforts to reach agreement with our unionized workforce, all without success," it said Wednesday in a letter from…
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FairPoint CEO Paul Sunu to Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine. But the good faith efforts weren't reciprocated, FairPoint said. It doesn't appear the unions are serious "about addressing FairPoint's need for substantive reform to the company's benefit costs," it said. Sunu responded to a letter from Pingree last week expressing concern about the strike. A representative for the union didn't return a request for comment.