Sub-zero temperatures can't – and won't – break FairPoint strikers across Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire.

As mediation continues in Washington, D.C., this week, workers and their supporters stood strong on picket lines in solidarity with their bargaining teams working for a fair contract.

Today is day 91 and workers are prepared to wait for as long as it takes. They walked out last October after FairPoint Communications unilaterally declared an impasse in negotiations and enforced its final offer. That deal included freezing pensions, cutting retiree health care, raising health care costs for active workers, implementing a two-tier wage plan with big pay cuts for new hires, and ending restrictions on subcontracting and outsourcing.

CWA's Members' Relief Fund covers 215 striking CWAers, but the 1,500 striking IBEW members have no strike fund. Please help support these brave workers by contributing to the IBEW-CWA Solidarity Fund.