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CWA Says No to Tentative Contract with Frontier

CWA Says No to Tentative Contract with Frontier - Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 12:39PM EST

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The C-W-A Local 13571 voted tonight on a new contract at the Triton Hose Company in Tunkhannock.

The union represents workers from Frontier Communications Solutions in Pennsylvania .

It covers 10 areas in Northeastern Pennsylvania .

They were working under an extended contract that expired at 11:59 p. m. on Friday.

They had a tentative agreement on February ninth.

Our region was the last of the four locals to vote on the contract'

Friday night, with all the votes counted, the members said no. Union officials say they will go back to the bargaining table