<p>I heard a representative from one of the Verizon unions on the radio and they didn’t have a problem with giving back some of their benefits. His chief complaint was that Verizon had a list of some 140-odd demands of givebacks which they weren’t prepared to do.</p>
<p>We had Verizon in NH before they sold the operations to Fairpoint. The unions objected to the sale but it went through. Then Fairpoint went into bankruptcy and came out and is recovering. It’s interesting that service from Verizon’s broadband service came from India and was generally awful. Fairpoint’s customer service is based in the US and is quite good. Fairpoint’s prices are generally better than Verizon’s. I don’t know what happened to the unions with Fairpoint - there are no news articles that I could find on Fairpoint and unions for the last two years. Either they are out or they are in but there haven’t been any conflicts.</p>