Word: cwa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CWA has a national strike defense fund containing $17 million to $18 million, and will pay strikers based on need after the second week, Early said...
Stephen Early, representative of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), said NYNEX had refused joint negotiations with its two unions. CWA represents about 40,000 workers, primarily in New York, while the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers represents the other 20,000, mostly in New England, he said...
Linnen said IBEW-member operators reported to work yesterday for all three shifts yesterday after the CWA strike was called. About 4000 of AT&T's 36,000 union operators are IBEW members. Most of them work in New England and Pennsylvania...
Rozanne Weissman, a CWA spokesman, said her union expects IBEW members to honor its picket lines at facilities where both unions represent AT&T employees...
...strike is not expected to disrupt local phone service, including directory assistance, repairs and residential installations. The court-ordered divestiture of AT&T in 1984 spun off those local subsidiaries into seven independent regional phone companies. Their contracts with the CWA do not expire until August...