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Our Future Won’t Wait in ’98,” chanted thousands of CWA members at more than 20 ral-lies nationwide that marked the opening of AT&T bargaining.

A CWA employment center will supply about 60 technicians to U S West in selected areas. CWA is also working to fill an undetermined number of positions for an alternate service provider in 32 U.S. cities.

Fresh from their protest appearance outside the Academy Award telecast in Los Angeles on March 23, NABET-CWA members staged raucous rallies in three other major cities eight days later in a further show of determination to win a new contract with ABC-TV, part of the giant Disney Co. conglomerate.

CWA President Morton Bahr, in his role as chairman of the AFL-CIO’s Department of Public Employees, recently accused information technology (IT) managers of “crying wolf” on alleged shortages of skilled workers.

While management at AllTel Corp., the Little Rock, Ark.-based telephone company, continues to stiff-arm CWA attempts to reach agreements on new contracts, the company is throwing around money like a drunken sailor.