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As regulators in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine express concern over Verizon's proposed sale of its phone business to a small North Carolina company, FairPoint Communications, CWA has proposed that governors and lawmakers in the three states consider forming an independent company to buy and operate the telecommunications network.

The National Labor Relations Board has dealt yet another blow to workers' rights, ruling in a case involving CWA journalists that employers can ban union-related messages from being sent through a company's e-mail system.

Concerned over the lack of job security, poor wages, and exorbitant health care costs, a unit of 588 customer care workers at an AT&T Government Solutions center in Dover, New Hampshire, gained representation with CWA Local 1298 through majority card check. According to the state AFL-CIO it was the largest private sector organizing win in New Hampshire since 1966. The workers process passport applications under an AT&T contract with the U.S. Department of State.

Please see below, message from Avaya regarding the ESSP Termination.

While our members continue to lose their jobs, because the company states the cost is too high, the senior leadership allows this kind of inept management costing millions in fines.