Frontier Communications, Communications Workers of America Reach Agreement in California

Frontier Communications and the Communications Workers of America District 9 signed an agreement bringing them one step closer to completing Frontier’s planned acquisition of Verizon’s wireline business assets in California, said a news release from Frontier. CWA, representing about 3,400 Verizon employees in California, supports the proposed acquisition and believes approval of the transaction is in the public's and employees’ interests, the release said. Under the agreement, after the transaction closes in the first half of 2016, Frontier will increase its workforce in California with at least 150 new, union-represented positions, the release said.