Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationwide telephone strike -first in 21 years-moved into its third week, it had produced little more than some annoying static in phone service. Beyond a rash of minor sabotage that damaged cables and equipment, the only major effect was a suspension of new phone installations as Bell System companies kept skeleton repair crews close to central offices. Filling in for striking operators, gravel-voiced executives on twelve-hour switchboard shifts were all thumbs at first, but by week's end most were well on the way to mastering their temporary tasks...
...contrast to 1947, when a walkout of 370,000 workers snarled the nation's telephone communications for 44 days, the 84-million-phone Bell System is now all but invulnerable to shutdown by strike. Only 18 of Bell's towns (among them: York, Ala., Nashwauk, Minn.) are still served by manual switchboards; elsewhere, automated equipment has eliminated the need for operators on 99.8% of local calls and 91% of long-distance calls. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. insists that its new gear can function without attention indefinitely. And even union men concede that, thanks to up-from...
Thus it is surprising that phone workers actually chose to strike over their demands for higher pay-which is up for regular renegotiation under "wage reopener" clauses midway through their three-year contracts. Most of the militance comes from the C.W.A.'s 23,000 central-office installers. The highest-paid men in the industry (earning some $3.27 per hour v. $2.76 for the average phone worker), they have hooted down industry offers of a 71% pay increase over the next 18 months, are demanding a whopping...
...Board members "to study and recommend changes in the basic structure of the University." They also requested that a similar study be made by the Executive Committee of the Faculty, an ad hoc group of about 500 faculty members who have expressed their disagreement with the proposed student strike...
...Strike Planned...