The Nation - News from Aug. 30, 1989

Bell Atlantic workers in five Eastern states and Washington, D.C., returned to work after a 22-day strike and two subsidiaries of the “Baby Bell” serving the Midwest agreed on a tentative contract. Ameritech’s Indiana Bell and Illinois Bell reached tentative agreement with the Communication Workers of America. They are the fourth and fifth of six units of Ameritech hit by a strike Aug. 12 to settle. At NYNEX, which serves New York and most of New England, talks were to resume today in New York with the CWA and in Boston with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.