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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
CWA Strikes The Bell System
In 1983, only months before the Bell System was to be broken into separate companies, CWA opened national contract negotiations. Not surprisingly, it was a difficult round of negotiations. AT&T was demanding givebacks from workers and seeking substandard job titles. Seven hundred thousand CWA members went on Strike on August 7 for better wages, employment security, pension plan changes and health insurance improvements. The strike lasted 22 days when the telephone industry agreed to meet the union's demands. This would be the last time CWA would be able to negotiate at one national table for all its Bell System members because divestiture was only a few months away. How time can change things, what comes around, goes around.
In Unity There Is Strength.
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