Chris Collier is one of at least one hundred Communication Workers of America members to voice their opposition to the planned $8.6 billion sale of Verizon landlines to Frontier Communications.

"I'm not oppose to working for another company if the deal is right," Collier said. "This deal is not right."

Collier and his union oppose any deal that doesn't come with real guarantees from both companies over service issues, investment and treatment of workers. It points to the failure of similar sales in the northeastern part of the country that left at least one state facing problems with its 911 system.

"Why is this different than Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont only a year and half ago," CWA president Larry Cohen said.

Verizon says the union's concerns don't apply to the proposed sale to Frontier.

"It is a lot of posturing," Verizon spokesman Harry Mitchell said.

Frontier has released a packet of information to debunk what it says are "myths" about the sale of the landlines. But union members aren't buying it.

"If this deal goes bad in two to three years you are going to have a bankrupt telephone company," Collier said.

Frontier maintains it isn't overextending itself financially by taking over some 600,000 lines in West Virginia. It says the sale would usher in a "new frontier" of reliable phone service and greater broadband access.

But members like Chris remain skeptical about just what that "new frontier" will look like.