Health benefits key issue in phone strike. (NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, Pacific Telesis)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, August, 1989 by Ness, Immanuel

Health Benefits Key Issue In Phone Strike Health insurance benefits are the primary point of contention in the strike against three `Baby Bell' telephone companies. Some 160,000 workers went on strike Aug. 6 against NYNEX, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Telesis after the companies could not agree on a new contract with the Washington, D.C.-based Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

The unions refused a corporate proposal that would partially shift health care costs to employees. Bell Atlantic, based in Arlington, Va., said it is trying to control costs in its self-insured health plan adminstered by Blue Cross by getting employees to be more cost-conscious. Among Bell Atlantic's proposals to workers,...

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