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Communications Workers Not Hopeful about New Contract with Bell Atlantic.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 1995 by Borowski, Neill A.

PHILADELPHIA--Aug. 4--Job security is the key issue as Bell Atlantic Corp. and the Communications Workers of America attempt to negotiate a contract before the current one expires Saturday night, a union official said Thursday.

After a morning bargaining session, however, the union was not optimistic.

"We thought we were making some progress Wednesday, but we seem to be at a stalemate now," Vincent J. Maisano, a CWA international vice president based in Philadelphia, said Thursday.

Maisano and other CWA officials are negotiating with Bell Atlantic in Washington on behalf of 37,000 employees represented by the union in the Bell regional company. CWA membership accounts for just over half of Bell's payroll. The CWA has 11,509 Bell members in...

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