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TV ads aim to show the human side of FairPoint strikers
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/12/05/bill-nemitz-tv-ads-aim-at-personal-touch-for-public-strike/
Going beyond picket lines to make their case, the unions take a new tack to win the public's support.
BY BILL NEMITZ COLUMNIST
Dave O’Brion is a veteran telecommunications worker, not a TV personality.
Until now.
“This is nothing but corporate greed. These companies make all these promises and then they don’t fulfill them,” laments O’Brion, 53, in a 30-second advertisement recorded last month at his home in Falmouth. “You want to enjoy your golden years – and now you can’t. There will be no golden years.”
Welcome to the nine-week-old strike by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Communications Workers of America against FairPoint Communications, now playing not only on the picket lines, but perhaps more significantly on television sets throughout Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
FULL story at link.
