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April, 1984 ." II'''.'
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At thi, lime AT&T providl:d substandard 'ervice to Iho people for the ,arne prices.' The 3% 10," in phone u,agcdue to lack of operators wa, pmbablyea,ily made up by people making an .",. effort to dial direct and by lhe fact that ,orne of the calls we'" being handled by scabbing ,upervisory Ie,.•,: em ployee', And '0, the company nots pure profit: 3 week 'triko x S2S0/week x 675.000 workers = 5506.250,000) Phillip, also note> lbal because managers and supervisors "ere dc;ng tho Ji"}' wor~ of the phone oompany, ,he,e people could not work on new proj,cts. This means that ,"eral hundred million dollar< would nol be inve'ted in expendilUr.. on new project' because lhere is no one 10 do lhe work. So AT&T would get interest on lhi. money during lhe strike and even for some limeaner it was souled unlil work had re,umed. Thi' yields ,everal million mOre dollars in profit fur AT&T. AT&T probahly made OUt direclly Wilh o\'£r half a billion dollars from tho ",ike, Al the same time companies like New York Telephone sought lO delay a $160 million rate illCfease '0 it cuuld .sk for anotner iricrease 10 refieel new conlracts, As part of lne ,wl.menl 21 day' later, lOp e.aft workers go' a 5.5% increase fo. lhe !irst )'Oar of their 3 yearcontr'CI and L5% for eaoh of lhe noxl two ye.rs. They .lso gOI a $31 million training fund (S4/i per employee) to help them deal Wilh new lechnology and remain employable numan" All of theso ~gains" .re sun,idized by In. half a billion dollars gaining loIS of inlerest which AT&T did not hav.to pay to lh.ir emploYees, AT&T.t !irst offored • ridiculous 3.5% increase for lhe firsl year and no increa,e for tho next two. bul after losing 5.8% of lheir salary by striking. workers !lO1 a 5,5% ;ncr',""e above the Co,t of liying whleh Is probably em;rel}' ,ubsidlzed by lhe strike it'elf and by rate increase,. h', certainly nifty doal for M. BelL Their workers blow off sleam aod p.v for lheir own rai,es.•"d stockholders d"n't have 10 wurry one bil, The strike had its effecl on theconsume,- A, weall know, many were dialing, touehloning", or fedialing their call, almosl like u,ual and olhers were severely inconvenienced by a few managers and supervi,ors ,,'ork;ng a, long distance or direclory a"istanee oPOrators often for many hours of overtime, New inSlallalion> came to a 'landstill and m'nv wer< backlogged for s,wer.l month,. Any emergen~y repai':' had to be h.ndled hy ,upervisory personnel, But afler all lhi._ the SlIme fat phon. bin Came 10 reopie's hom<s,h. next month, Wilhout any delay. In actualily. ".er> cannOl complain to or boyeotl the phone company a. they could the Otbb.>ge-Palch@ manufaeWr1.•' i., "·IIt' ," r oversea. directory a"istance.
A Word on Wiretapping
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A recenl articl. hy Lenny Si.g.l, director of ,he PacifLc Studies Cenler in Mountain View. CA. dealt with the ,ubject,of wiretapping. In thi' article. Siegel 'ays. "Present law outlaws ·.urai· (voice) wiretapping. th. monitoring of telephone conver· ..tions. wilhout jcdiciai approval, but 'nnnaural' .urvcil_ lance is legal. Law 'nforcement and intelligence agencies can and do r.cord telephone dialing infonnation ---who's calling whom-and digital data tran.mis.ion,----me>.age. between compulers and Olher el.ctronic dooices. In fact, the General Accounling Office. an inv.stigative arm of Congr.... warn, that existing legi,lalion maY.permit listening in 00 the growing percentage of voice tran,missions Ihat ha.e been con ..ned to di~ital pul,,,,, within the telephune network."
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