Frontier Communications to lay off workers
Note: Here's a story I see in other newspapers around the country when it happens in their community, yet our local paper continues to miss out on, or ignore this one.
At one time, this office employed over 150 people in Fort Dodge; the large building was full of good paying jobs as the Fort Dodge office was a regional headquarters for the telecommunication company. Today, outside of the technical repair department, I believe the number is now down to less than a handful.
Yet no stories in our local paper about it....or about the other jobs that have been eliminated from the Fort Dodge office over the past 18 months.
Perhaps the lack of news coverage is because the employees who had their jobs eliminated didn't buy enough public notices to warrant the news coverage.
From CitizensVoice.com
"Eleven people will be laid off from Frontier Communications in Dallas and Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Nine people were notified in the PBX switchboard department in Dallas and nine in the dispatch department in Wilkes-Barre that their positions are being eliminated, but seven people are taking other call center jobs, said Frontier spokeswoman Pat Amendola. The changes were part of a three-year labor contract ratified in November, she said.
Frontier Communications recently said it would lay off about 3 percent of its work force in Pennsylvania as a result of the labor contract with the Communication Workers of America, which represents about 300 Frontier employees."
At one time, this office employed over 150 people in Fort Dodge; the large building was full of good paying jobs as the Fort Dodge office was a regional headquarters for the telecommunication company. Today, outside of the technical repair department, I believe the number is now down to less than a handful.
Yet no stories in our local paper about it....or about the other jobs that have been eliminated from the Fort Dodge office over the past 18 months.
Perhaps the lack of news coverage is because the employees who had their jobs eliminated didn't buy enough public notices to warrant the news coverage.
From CitizensVoice.com
"Eleven people will be laid off from Frontier Communications in Dallas and Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Nine people were notified in the PBX switchboard department in Dallas and nine in the dispatch department in Wilkes-Barre that their positions are being eliminated, but seven people are taking other call center jobs, said Frontier spokeswoman Pat Amendola. The changes were part of a three-year labor contract ratified in November, she said.
Frontier Communications recently said it would lay off about 3 percent of its work force in Pennsylvania as a result of the labor contract with the Communication Workers of America, which represents about 300 Frontier employees."
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Comment by Bill Grady on February 24, 2010 at MyFortDodge.com -
Two follow ups to this story:
Frontier Communications Q4 Profit Down 87% (posted today, 2/24/10)
OUCH!
The other, AT&T Tells FCC It's Time to Cut the Cord is pretty shocking, yet not surprising.
When your mother (Ma Bell) says "pull the plug", all that's left to do is to call the priest for the last rites.
Land line telephones....RIP.
Yet Frontier wants to buy all these land lines from Verizon. Not because they're profitable, but because (IMO) they're unprofitable and they can go to the government to bail them out when the transaction finally goes bad. Nothing like having the big corporations continue to see taxpayer bail out money as a revenue source, and scheme in advance to get it.
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