Now that Verizon sale in WV is approved…

Increased labor management cooperation will be needed to

save overly indebted Frontier from bankruptcy
Anticipating Thursday evening's approval by the West Virginia Public Service Commission of Verizon's
purchase of landlines in West Virginia, union members told Frontier Communications' shareholders about
the need for increased investment in its network and the importance of two-way cooperation for the highly
indebted company to succeed.

The much anticipated decision by the West Virginia PSC on the proposed 14 state landline sale was the
last state regulatory hurdle. A decision by the FCC is expected soon.

Frontier union leaders became shareholder activists at the company's May 13 annual meeting in Stamford,
CT. Members from Frontier's operations in Blue Field, West Virginia and Rochester, New York were
joined by the CWA's national telecom Vice President Jimmy Gurganus and IBEW’s Director of
Corporate Affairs Jim Voye at the meeting.

Voye spoke on behalf of an IBEW sponsored shareholder proposal that would require top executives to
retain a significant percentage of shares in the company after termination of their employment. "This
would focus them on the company's long-term success and better align their interests with that of
shareholders," said Voye. The union's shareholder proposal did not win majority support this year.

During the informal question and answer period after the meeting, Gurganus told CEO Maggie
Wilderotter that given the challenges Frontier faces with the cutover, systems integration and actually
implementing its "synergies," expanded organizing rights would be needed to ensure full cooperation
between labor and management.

"All Frontier workers should be able to form unions without any management intimidation or
interference," said Gurganus.

John Pusloskie, president of CWA Local 1170 in Rochester, NY questioned the company's commitment
to quality service over high dividends for shareholders.

"We've seen how Wall Street's investments can backfire," said Pusloskie. "Like Frontier today, Wall
Street once put its confidence in Global Crossing and that led to a disastrous bankruptcy. "We're
concerned that the Rochester-area and other existing Frontier properties may be starved to fund this
expansion."

Gene Leedy, president of CWA Local 2276 and a Frontier technician in Blue Fields, WV questioned
management's assumptions about future landline losses. "Knowing that Verizon has a much higher rate of
landline losses, has management paid too much for this deal? Is it too late to renegotiate the price?"

One outcome of the meeting was a renewed interest in building stronger relationships and better
communication between union members at all Frontier locations. "If the deal does finally go through,
Frontier's union membership will almost quadruple in size," said Pusloskie. "We'll need to coordinate
bargaining strategy between the legacy Frontier groups and the former Verizon bargaining units."

At the meeting, CWA members distributed a new research report highlighting the risks to West Virginia's
customers and employees associated with the proposed Verizon-Frontier deal. The report was also
released last week on the floor of Verizon's annual stockholders' meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas and
across West Virginia.

Pictures from the shareholder meeting and briefing with CWA Local 1298 members are on a photo
sharing website at: http://picasaweb.google.com/randwilson.aflcio/FrontierAnnualMeeting