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...good settlement," said AT&T spokesman Herb Linnen. "Our energies now will be directed to reaching agreement with the CWA and its membership...
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...
...week later, a Roosevelt decree created the Civil Works Administration. Within the incredible space of a month, Hopkins had put 2.6 million people on his payroll, at 40? an hour for unskilled labor, $1 for skilled; within another month he had hit his target of 4 million jobs. CWA workers refurbished 500,000 miles of roads and 40,000 schools, and they built 150,000 outdoor privies throughout the South. Hopkins hired actors to give free shows and librarians to catalogue archives. To someone who criticized such largesse for intellectuals, Hopkins answered: "Hell, they've got to eat just...