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In the rural Maine communities of South China and Winthrop, 72 workers at two FairPoint call centers extended CWA representation to formerly nonunion workers at the small telecom that purchased Verizon's New England landline business. This is the first group of FairPoint workers to organize since the deal was approved, according to District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton.

They organized through the neutrality and card check provision CWA negotiated in its recently-approved contract extension for the 3,000 former Verizon employees at the company. CWA Local 1400 shop stewards Jonathan Putnam and Jeanne Picardi assisted the workers along with local President Cheryl Ahearn.