FairPoint Communications will stop providing health care benefits for its striking workers after Friday, ratcheting up the pressure in the contentious two-week-old walkout. Several workers on the picket line Thursday outside the telecommunications company’s headquarters in Portland said they received company notices that they would no longer have health insurance after Oct.
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