MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont's congressional delegation has joined the governor in calling for FairPoint Communications to negotiate to end the two-month-old strike by about 1,700 workers.
U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch sent a letter to FairPoint CEO Paul Sunu Tuesday saying failure to reach a fair agreement with workers is not only hurting them but it is negatively affecting customers and the services it's required to provide.
Gov. Peter Shumlin sent a letter to Sunu Friday.
It came a day after the company's broadband Internet service was knocked offline for customers throughout Vermont and parts of New Hampshire and a Nov. 28 outage in which Vermont's 911 emergency calling system was out of service for large parts of the state due to problems on FairPoint's network.