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Frontier Telephone workers in Georgia won union representation with the Communication Workers of America in April 2005. To this date, the workers (now members of CWA Local 3220) still don’t have a contract.

Frontier’s parent company, Citizens Communications, made over $56 million more in the second quarter of this year than last year and the company’s CEO made almost $4 million last year. Yet the company refuses to give its workers a fair contract.

In fact, the company’s latest demands include the right to outsource its entire workforce. Cable splicers, technicians, installers, and dispatchers in Statesboro, Georgia, face being entirely replaced by subcontractors. Already, most of the skilled unionized workers spend much time re-fixing and undoing subcontractor’s mistakes and errors.

Workers are fighting for a wage increase to put them on par with comparable worker at other phone companies. Currently, the workers in Statesboro make $3 less per hour than their counterparts. The company’s proposed “progressive” wage scale would only give raises through “merit pay incentives” determined solely by management. The workers are also fighting a proposed increase in the health care co-payment to $400 per month and the company’s right to drop health benefits at any time without reason or notice.

Please send your letters urging Citizens Communications CEO Maggie Wilderotter to obey labor laws and bargain with workers at CWA Local 3220 for a respectable contract. Mail your letters to: Maggie Wilderotter, CEO, Citizens Communications, 3 High Ridge Park, Stamford, CT 06905.

Expiration Date:
Wed, 11/08/2006 - 10:00pm