News

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.

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

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.

As CWA employers expand to offer new services, the union's organizers are right there, demanding representation for the workers that provide them.

The voices of 10,000 American workers - many of them CWA members - were raised the week of June 24 in more than 70 locations in protest against policies that make it either difficult or impossible for workers to join a union.