The Nation - News from Sept. 29, 1989

Negotiators for the telephone company NYNEX turned down offers by their striking unions to make contract concessions on wages to offset the telephone company’s demand that workers share the rising costs of health insurance. The development came as the two sides met for the first time in almost two weeks. The bitter telephone strike in New York state and New England was winding up its eighth week with no new rounds of talks scheduled. “The unions made an offer which we unfortunately have had to turn down,” said NYNEX spokesman Robert O’Brien in New York.