Help Striking FairPoint Families This Holiday Season

Soon, 1,800 CWA and IBEW members will be entering the ninth week of their strike at FairPoint Communications locations in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Let's make sure these valiant union members, who had the courage to strike, can provide for their families this holiday season.

FairPoint, New England's largest telecommunications company, unilaterally imposed a contract that ended restrictions on subcontracting and outsourcing, froze pensions, increased health care costs for active workers and cut retiree health care, added a two-tier wage plan with big pay cuts for new hires and other cuts that forced workers to walk out.

While CWA's Members' Relief Fund covers 215 striking members, the 1,500 striking IBEW members have no strike fund.

Make a donation to the IBEW-CWA Solidarity Fund by clicking here. Your support will help them continue to stand up to corporate greed.

A strike can be especially hard on the children of the striking parents, who have already begun to tell their kids that Christmas is going to be much smaller this year. So CWA Local 1400 has compiled a wish list of gifts for the children of its members in three states. There are hundreds of items to choose from, from diapers to gift cards to toys. Click here to see the list and help make the holiday season brighter for the children of these striking workers. 

Lastly, if you live near one of the many strike lines throughout New England, please come show your support. Hold a sign, bring some coffee or order a few pizzas for workers standing out in the cold! IBEW and CWA are also asking for people to drop off gift cards to local grocery stores and gas stations.

We can't allow our brothers and sisters to be starved or frozen back to work. This holiday season, please stand with workers fighting for a fair contract.

To learn more and stay up to date on the strike, visit Fairness at FairPoint on Facebook.