CPUC-Proposed Muni Right to First Frontier Offer Stuns CWA
Union workers urged a California commissioner to reconsider giving tribes and local governments a right of first offer to buy Frontier Communications property. The California Public Utilities Commission proposed that in a draft decision to grant Frontier’s bankruptcy reorganization in…
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docket A.20-05-010 (see 2102180031). Communications Workers of America “respects the sovereignty of tribes” but “has significant concerns about the adverse impacts from municipalization of telecommunication services on workers and service quality” and sees no legal basis or record evidence supporting such a requirement, CWA wrote Friday to Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves. CWA was “stunned” at a recent meeting with the commissioner’s staff by her apparent support for that provision, the union said. The CPUC plans to vote Thursday and is the last state needed to clear Frontier’s deal.