johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) (10/09/89)
A judge here in Massachusetts finally cut off unemployment benefits to
NYNEX workers because NYNEX persuaded him that there has been a "significant
curtailment of business." This puts more pressure on the strikers to settle.
On the other hand, yesterday's Boston Sunday Globe reports that many
large business customers who are NYNEX's bread and butter are now bypassing
NYNEX to hook up to LD carriers, since NYNEX can't hook them up at this
point anyway. They are unlikely to un-bypass when the strike is over, and
this will be a major hit on access line revenues. It also says that the
overtime they have to pay to non-striking supervisors working 60 hour weeks
appears to consume most of the savings they get from not paying the strikers.
No report on talks, though.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl