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SBC and AT&T Begin New Year with Bold Bids
News
February 1, 1998
If television news covered business and industry the same way it covers murder and mayhem, we’d turn on our sets every night and catch up on what’s happening in the Great Telecom-munications War of the 1990s. Take these examples:
Bell South Service Rep Wins Comp Case for Stress
News
February 1, 1998
Teresa Y. Williford has earned a place in the history books, becoming the first person to ever win a worker’s compensation case based on mental stress against a major telecommunications company.
CWA Urges Public Hearings in California, Virginia on Proposed MCI/WorldCom Merger
Press Release
The Communications Workers of America is continuing to raise government and public concern about the negative effects of the proposed merger of WorldCom Inc.
Merged MCI/WorldCom Would Dominate the Internet And Stifle Telephone Competition, CWA Charges In Tod
Press Release
WorldCom's proposed acquisition of MCI would give the company near monopoly control over the Internet backbone with the power to set prices and control access by service providers, the Communications Workers of America charged in urging the Federal Communications Commission to block the deal.
CWA Puts Heat on AllTel For Squeezing Workers to Buy "Shrine to Itself"
News
December 1, 1997
It was a very hot day in Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 5, when the Jacksonville Jaguars played the Cincinnati Bengals at the newly-named "AllTel" stadium.