The Ky. PSC denied a petition by the CWA and IBEW to bar Windstre...
The Ky. PSC denied a petition by the CWA and IBEW to bar Windstream Communications from reducing part of its workforce in the state. The unions said the March 2 layoff of 46 Ky. customer service employees violated a…
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state condition in a May 2006 PSC approval of the Alltel-Valor merger that formed Windstream and petitioned for enforcement of the merger order (Case 2007-00069). The PSC barred merger-related layoffs. But Windstream said the job reduction didn’t arise from the merger, but was part of a plan to consolidate customer service operations in 16 states. Windstream said the unions wrongly read the merger condition as a ban on Ky. job reductions for any reason. Windstream also said it is adding 14 technician and engineering jobs in Ky. The PSC said it hadn’t mandated that Windstream maintain employment at any specific level for any specific time, and can’t block Windstream from doing something it didn’t prohibit. But it held Windstream to its March 7 deadline to respond to the unions’ original petition for enforcement of the merger order.