BRATTLEBORO — The strikers in front of the FairPoint building on Main Street want it to be recognized that they are in an uphill battle against that company.
FairPoint did not renew its workers' contract this summer and is offering them one that requires a one-third cut in pay and an inferior health plan at a higher rate. In addition, pensions are frozen.
The man I spoke to said that it was a case of FairPoint wanting to bust the union. Unions have been crushed all over the country, he said, and he noted that only 11 percent of workers in the United States belong to unions.
We should do our part to find out more about the FairPoint strike, talk to the strikers, and tell other people what is going on.
The other day, there was only one striker in front of the FairPoint building. The others, he said, had to go looking for work to keep the strike going.