| Frontier Communications and the Communications Workers of America have tentatively agreed on a new contract following more than a year of negotiations.
Details of the proposal must be ratified by union members.
Frontier, after purchasing Verizon, paid Verizon employees about $6 more per hour, leaving behind the 150 long-time legacy employees, mostly in West Virginia rural counties, including Calhoun.
The union, over several years, says it is trying to bring-up the wages of the legacy employees, but so far, without success.
If approved, the proposal would cover about 1,500 Frontier workers in 42 counties.
The existing contract has been extended several times since negotiations began in mid-June 2013.
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