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The Telecom Digest for October 8, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 235 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Union reaches tentative deal with Verizon (Bill Horne)
Re: Verizon to credit Merrimack Valley customers who lost service (Paul)
IBEW members still voting on new contract (Bill Horne)

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Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:02:38 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Union reaches tentative deal with Verizon 
Message-ID: <20121007190238.GA13444@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

I'm catching up on news: I hadn't seen a TV set or heard a news
broadcast for the last two months, so this might be a little bit stale
for some of you.

Bill
- - - - - - 

Union reaches tentative deal with Verizon

By Michael B. Farrell, Globe Staff

More than a year after 6,000 Verizon Communications Inc. employees in
Massachusetts staged a contentious two-week strike, their union
representatives struck a tentative agreement with the communications
giant Wednesday for a new three-year contract.

http://www.boston.com/businessupdates/2012/09/19/union-reaches-tentative-deal-with-verizon/TcNpkVVeS2YB2l9EBRkMeO/story.html

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)




Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 16:35:12 +0000 (UTC)
From: Paul <pssawyer@remove-this.comcast.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon to credit Merrimack Valley customers who lost service 
Message-ID: <XnsA0E5800C5AFC9Senex@88.198.244.100>

HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote in
news:8a4b50da-651c-4628-b567-69d7dd804212@o7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com
: 

> On Aug 31, 9:35 pm, Monty Solomon <mo...@roscom.com> wrote:
>> Verizon to credit Merrimack Valley customers who lost service
> 
> Historical note:
> 
> The old Bell System once had a major presence in the Merrimack
> Valley.  Western Electric's Merrimack Valley Works at their height
> employed around 12,000 people, and were the major employer in the
> region.
> 
> The AT&T archives has an interesting video describing it.  (Note
> that these archives have both historical and contemporary
> technology videos available for view).
> 
>
> http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2011/6/22/AT
> &T-Archives-I
> n-the-Merrimack-Valley 

In those days, many of my friends had a parent who worked there;  I 
remember a tour of the plant, probably with school, but I do not 
remember any details.

-- 
Paul




Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:12:15 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: IBEW members still voting on new contract 
Message-ID: <20121007191215.GA14718@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

The IBEW membership is still voting on whether to accept the tentative
agreement with Verizon.

http://ibew2322.com/

http://ibew2222.org/tentative_agreement_with_verizon_-_ratification_voting_is_ongoing

(Other sites are easy to find.)

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)






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