FairPoint Communications announced last Thursday that it plans to lay off more than 110 employees from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, according to union representatives.
The Bangor Daily News reported that the exact number of jobs affected isn’t known. A union member told the paper on Friday that 110 would be laid off, but according to a joint statement from Don Trementozzi, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1400, and Peter McLaughlin, business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2327, the number of layoffs is 153.
FairPoint spokeswoman Angelynne Beaudry told the BDN that “about 3% [of the 1,550 total workers] would be impacted in Maine and 6.36% in Vermont and New Hampshire.”
That would put the number of workers affected in Maine at around 46, according to the BDN.
“We were extremely disheartened to learn yesterday — just one week before Thanksgiving — that FairPoint Communications of Northern New England plans to eliminate 153 positions in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont,” said the joint statement.
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