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The issue that was the rallying cry for the formation of the American labor movement was establishment of the eight-hour day and 40-hour week as the national job standar

CWA negotiators are addressing forced overtime and other workplace issues as well as the need for strengthening job security and improving wages and benefits in talks at five major telecommunications companies.

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.

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.

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