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...musicians are getting tremendous support within the community -- 87% of the callers to a local TV talk show applauded the strike. Performers like Rodney Dangerfield, Connie Francis and Dionne Warwick have canceled their shows. Lounge lizards like Sammy Davis Jr. and Tony Orlando have vowed not to cross the picket lines...
...striking New England Telephone workers were arrested for blocking the company's repair trucks. Customers in New York, New Jersey and California lost service when phone lines were sabotaged. In Van Nuys, Calif., two striking Pacific Bell employees suffered injuries when they were bumped by cars crossing the picket lines. The drivers "got angry because we called them scabs," claimed Marisa Rotondi, a shop steward for the local union. "Things are starting to get pretty bad out here...
...stakes labor issue: medical benefits. In an era of rising health-care costs, companies are trying to shift more of the burden to employees. Workers, on the other hand, look upon their medical benefits as hard-won rights that have become essential to maintaining their standard of living. Declared picket signs last week: CUTTING OUR HEALTH BENEFITS IS SICK...
Union spokespersons said picket lines had been drawn in front of at least 60 of NYNEX's 98 New England locations, but no other disturbances were reported yesterday...
Early said topics union leaders planned to discuss at today's meeting included ways of escalating the strike, asking other unions for financial help and volunteers to join picket lines and pressuring NYNEX customers, bankers and outside directors to intercede with the company for concessions...