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AT&T Pact Opens the Door to Organize TCI
News
August 1, 1998
Even while AT&T prepares to wrestle with regulators and some investors over the company's late June decision to acquire Tele-Communications Inc. in a $48 billion stock deal, TCI workers are looking forward to a fairer playing field when it comes to winning union representation.
Sending Management A Message: "Family Matters!"
News
August 1, 1998
Several years back, management at a number of the regional Bell companies made a huge mistake and drastically cut the jobs of service representatives, technicians and other telecom workers, mostly in an attempt to please Wall Street.
Coping With the "Post-Loyalty" Corporate World
News
August 1, 1998
Disconnected: How Six People from AT&T Discovered the New Meaning of Work in a Downsized Corporate America
by Barbara Rudolph
Free Press, 1998 (224 pages, $25)
Cloth, ISBN 0-684-84266-1
by Barbara Rudolph
Free Press, 1998 (224 pages, $25)
Cloth, ISBN 0-684-84266-1
Phone Strike Shuts Down Puerto Rico
News
August 1, 1998
A strike by 6,400 Puerto Rican telephone workers, which mushroomed into a general labor strike that virtually stopped all commerce on the island July 7 and 8, was settled as the CWA News went to press.
CWA Newsmakers
News
August 1, 1998
Virgil D. Parks, who was an administrative assistant to the vice president of District 9 in CWA’s Burlingame, Calif., office, retired March 1. Parks, 61, went to work for Pacific Telesis in June 1956, in Redding, Calif., and soon became active in CWA Local 9419.