Pac Tel, BellSouth Reach Contract Accords : Labor: Pac Tel agreement covers 34,000 workers and includes a 10.5% wage increase over three years. Negotiations continue at two other regional phone companies.

Pacific Telesis Group on Tuesday became the second regional Bell company this week to reach an accord with a union representing most of its employees.

BellSouth Corp. reached an agreement later in the day, leaving two other phone companies continuing to work toward new contracts.

The agreement involving Pacific Telesis, the parent of Pacific Bell, includes a 10.5% wage increase over three years, a 14% increase in pension benefits, and provisions expanding funding for job training and making it easier for workers to transfer to new jobs within the company, said Jeffrey Miller, spokesman for the Communications Workers of America.

The pact covers 34,000 CWA workers in California and Nevada, phone company officials said.

The BellSouth accord, reached Tuesday evening, covers 58,000 CWA workers in nine states, including Georgia and the Carolinas. It provides for more job security and better health care benefits, but more details were not available, BellSouth spokesman Tim Klein said.

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Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. reached agreement Monday with the CWA on a contract covering 37,000 workers in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas.

That accord includes an 11% wage increase over three years and a reduction in employees’ health care contributions, said Vic Crawley, vice president of the CWA’s 6th District. It also includes a new security clause giving telephone workers--if they’re laid off--a chance to move to other subsidiaries of Southwestern Bell’s parent company, SBC Communications Inc., Crawley said.

Two other regional Bell companies--Bell Atlantic Corp. and Ameritech Corp.--continued talks on new contracts.

Company and union negotiators extended their talks after strike deadlines passed Saturday night.

At issue in all the negotiations are wages, union members’ access to new jobs within the companies, guarantees that those new jobs would be covered by the union, the use of subcontractors and the shifting of health care costs.

Bell Atlantic executives said the company does not expect an agreement any time soon.

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The CWA reached a new contract agreement with Nynex Corp. last year. Talks are under way to renew a contract with US West Inc. that expires Saturday.

Workers have gone on strike several times since the Baby Bells were formed after the court-directed breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in 1984. The largest came in 1989, when about 68,000 workers struck telephone companies in New York and 12 western states.