Verizon Seeks Freeze on Pa. PUC Probe Until Strike Ends
Verizon asked Pennsylvania regulators to hit pause on their copper service quality investigation until the company resolves its East Coast strike. In a motion filed Friday at the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Verizon requested “that this case be held in…
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abeyance for the duration of the strike” and to delay current due dates for prehearing memorandum (May 20) and the prehearing conference (May 26) until 30 days and 45 days, respectively, after union workers return to work. Verizon asked for the delay because it said the employees who would attend the prehearing conference are engaged in emergency work assignments filling in for the striking union workers. The purpose of the prehearing conference is to establish a litigation schedule. While not specifically rejecting Verizon’s motion, a spokeswoman for the Communications Workers of America said the probe must go on. “Verizon earlier tried to stop this investigation, but in April, the PUC rejected that move,” she said. “The PUC decided in February that a hearing into Verizon's neglect of the network was needed. The documentation of Verizon's failure to keep up the network and give customers the service they pay for dates to last fall and even earlier. One of the reasons workers are on strike is to push Verizon to provide customers with the service they deserve. Regulators are taking a serious look at this company, as they should.”