FairPoint Responds To Unions' Annoucement - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Communications provider FairPoint Communications, Inc. (FRP), following the disclosure of the information by the Communications Workers of America or CWA and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers or IBEW, confirmed that Region 1 of the National Labor Relations Board or NLRB has rejected the unions' challenge to FairPoint's implementation of its final contract proposals including around 1,700 employees in Northern New England.

FairPoint has been informed by a responsible official of the NLRB that now each of the six bad faith bargaining charges filed by the CWA and IBEW against FairPoint has been rejected. The most recent dismissals will follow an almost five month long investigation into both parties' conduct and NLRB Region 1's conclusion that there was no basis to the allegations that FairPoint bargained in bad faith or that its implementation of its final contract proposals was unlawful.