Telephone Companies Face Strike Deadline
Five regional telephone firms face a possible midnight strike as union talks with the Communications Workers of America stall. The BellSouth pact offers raises and bonuses, but ratification is pending and a walkout could target specific subsidiaries if deals fail.
BellSouth and CWA Reach Tentative Labor Deal
BellSouth Corp and the Communications Workers of America agreed on a three year contract for 65 000 employees across nine Southeastern states averting a midnight Saturday strike. The pact offers an immediate 2 percent raise with 1 5 percent raises at each anniversary and includes forward looking employee security provisions.
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BellSouth
Alabama
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
BellSouth Corp
CWA
Zucker
Atlanta
Communications Workers of America
Bell
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Hong Kong Delegation Tours Three Mile Island Plant
The Legislative Council members visit TMI for emergency preparedness briefing and discuss plant operation maintenance and evacuation plans. Residents fear an accident amid Chernobyl memories and petition protests while officials tour Calvert Cliffs and Beaver Valley plants and meet NRC and DOE representatives.
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Middletown
Legislative Council of
Hong Kong
Three Mile Island
China
Ho Sai-Chu
TMI
United States
Chiu Hin-Kwong
Hin- Kwong
Joe K. Yuen
Toronto
Yuen
Chernobyl
Hin-Kwong
Soviet Union
TMI Alert
Calvert Cliffs
Maryland
Beaver Valley
Pittsburgh
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Energy Department
Coast Guard to retrieve 150 crab pots after Soviet chase
Anchorage officials say a 108 foot crabber and about 60 vessels were in the Bering Sea near St Matthew Island when two Soviet ships chased the Katie K. A Coast Guard cutter and C 130 aircraft will locate and retrieve the pots and shield boats if harassment resumes under peacetime rules.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Coast Guard
U.S
Bering Sea
Frank Murkowski
R-Alaska
Brian Perkins
Juneau
Murkowski
Washington
Katie K
St. Matthew Island
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