The Nation - News from June 16, 1986

Non-striking manufacturing workers at American Telephone & Telegraph Co. voted by a 3-1 margin to accept a new contract with an 8% wage increase over three years. The contract, however, eliminates annual cost-of-living adjustments that had been a fixture of phone workers’ labor agreements with the telecommunications giant since 1972. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers said the rank-and-file vote on ratifying the contract was 11,725 for and 3,470 against. The Communications Workers of America, which represents 155,000, or three-fourths, of AT&T;’s union employees, continues in its third week of a nationwide strike.