• With the ongoing labor strike by Utility Workers Union of America, Con Ed claims that they can no longer provide street or block-level information regarding power outages because protestors are targeting their vehicles and harassing workers.
• Con Ed Spokesman Alfonso Quiroz said they pulled the information as a protective measure. “We have to balance the safety of employees with how much information we want to provide our customers,” Quiroz said.
• Con Edison has received criticism in the past for its failed public relations. In the 2006 Astoria blackout, the utility didn’t admit to having 10 times the number of power outages it initially reported until 10 days after the mass outage began.

From the article:

As its labor lockout stretches into a second week, Con Ed is blacking out information on customer blackouts.

The utility yanked street- and block-level data about electric outages from its Web site yesterday, alleging that members of its biggest union used the data to assault management employees repairing wires. …