12 AThe Daily Tar HeelMonday, August 29, 1983
Strike continues
Workers feel effects
From staff and wire reports
Local striking Communication Workers
of America say they are ready for the
strike against American Telephone and
Telegraph Co. to end. However, the
CWA, the largest of the three unions that
went on strike Aug. 7, is willing to stay off
the job until all 34 of its local contracts
have been settled.
Negotiators seeking to end the nation
wide strike against AT&T reached a con
tract settlement Saturday between the
CWA and one more local company.
Talks continued between the union and
two other regional companies, including
employees of the installation division of
Western Electric Co. in Greensboro.
Union and company spokesmen said the
CWA reached a contract agreement with
the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co. Saturday afternoon. Details of the
agreement were not available.
Disputes remained, however, involving
Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania, and
some employees of Western Electric Co.,
the company's manufacturing arm.
"People want to go back," stated local
CWA worker Jerry Holt from Chapel
Hill. Holt said that he believes the CWA is
better unified than anyone thought and
that the workers will stay off work as long
as is necessary. Holt, along with other
CWA workers, has been picketing in front
of the Southern Bell office on West
Franklin Street.
However, the three-week-old strike has
placed many CWA workers in financial
difficulty. Holt said that he was not finan
cially prepared for the strike. In spite of
the financial strain, Holt said that the
strike has allowed the workers to keep
their benefits and also gain new ones.
Another local CWA worker, Billy
Williamson, also of Chapel Hill, said that
25 percent of the employees job benefits,
such as health care, were being decreased
by AT&T. Job security is also a major
complaint of the strikers. Williamson said
that a test center in Chapel Hill was "phas
ed out." As a result, many people lost
their jobs. AT&T has now agreed to ini
tiate a program that will train workers who
have lost their jobs for new positions.
Williamson summed up the feelings of
many CWA workers saying, "I'm still
ready to stay out. We will do whatever it
takes to keep what we have."
Southern Bell officials in Chapel Hill
were not available Sunday to confirm
whether local employees would be return
ing to work. But other Southern Bell
employees have reported that they will be
returning.
Southern Bell employees in North
Carolina began returning to work Sunday
after a 21-day nationwide strike ended
with agreements between a union and sub
sidiaries of AT&T.
Bob Wofford, vice president of CWA
Local 3611 in Raleigh, said the 900
employees represented by the local would
return to work on their next scheduled
shift.
Wofford, a lineman, said he was eager
to return to work.
"I'm a telephone worker, not a profes
sional union person," he said. "We'd like
to go back to doing what we do best."
By 2 p.m., all 18 of the operators work
ing at Southern Bell in Raleigh were
regular operators, replacing management
personnel brought in during the strike,
said operator Frankie Santoro.
"I feel that everything worked out
fine," she said. "Everyone is very satisfied
with the outcome. Everyone was very
cooperative and stood behind a cause."
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Students spared phone connection fee increase
By MONT ROGERS
Staff Writer
Students escaped an increase in the price charged for
telephone connections this year, but the future years
may not be as kind.
According to George Mullen, manager of the
Southern Bell office in Chapel Hill, connection rates
may increase as long-distance rates decrease. Rates may
also increase as a result of a proposed rate hike to be
decided by the' Utilities Commission, he said.
In 1981, Southern Bell charged $15.50 for a connec
tion in a dormitory and $20.90 for a connection off
campus. Rates for 1982 and this jear are $31.90 for a dor
mitory connection andJ&jpIO Juciff-campus cohi
nection. 'iy -t
Mullen said the telephone company gives the dor
mitory residents a discount because the Residence Hall
Association distributes and collects the cards residents
fill out for telephone service.
The strike by telephone workers has not hindered the
connection of telephones in dormitories, but connections
off-campus and in Chapel Hill may take longer, he said.
"Connections in places where there has been prior ser
vice will not take long," he said. But if a customer has
no phone and is planning to use one of Southern Bell's,
it may lake a few days for installation, he said.
Mullen said connections take less time for people who
own their own phones, and in the future he expects more
people to have their own equipment.
The charge for the connection of a telephone is below
; what the connection actually xosts,Mullen said. " .
"The customer is establishing a billing record, a
record for directory assistance, and enabling himself to
make local and long distance calls," he said. "It takes six
people to connect one phone."
According to Mullen, one of the six telephone workers
is involved in the physical connection of the telephone to
the system. The five others do clerical or service work re
lated to the connection.
Other costs are those for, director assistance service,
listing in the telephone directory and billing records.
The charges for installation and local services are kept
low by over-charging for long-distance calls, he said.
Deregulation of the Bell System will cause long
distance charges to drop in the future, but local service
charges will increase to make up for the change, Mullen
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Funding of Gospel Choir
faces test in student court
By MARK STINNEFORD
Staff Writer
A complaint challenging the use of Stu
dent Activity Fees to support the Black
Student Movement Gospel Choir could
be heard in the Student Supreme Court as
early as next week, Chief Justice J.B. Kelly
said Thursday.
Campus Governing Council members
Steve Reinhard (District 1) and Allan
Rosen (District 7) presented the complaint
to Kelly on April 22. The complaint
charges that the choir is a religious
organization and that the group's use of
student fees violates the Student Govern
ment Constitution.
Funding of the choir is being challenged
under a new amendment to the Student
Government Constitution that prohibits
the CGC from funding programs, ser
vices or events of a religious or political
nature. The amendment was passed in a
student referendum last February.
The CGC's own budget rules also pro
hibit funding political or religious groups
and events.
'If you look at what they do
and where they go, you cannot
help but come to the conclusion
that they are religious. '
Steve Reinhard, CGC member
Kelly said that he had originally planned
for the court to hear the case following
the spring semester exam period last May
but that it proved impossible to contact
all the participants at that time.
Since the Student Supreme Court's
ruling on the complaint could affect
groups other than the choir, the delay in
scheduling the case will give all interested
organizations an opportunity to file briefs
with the court, Kelly said.
While accepting Kelly's explanation of
the delay, Reinhard said he believed the
controversial nature of the issue had
caused the Supreme Court to do some
"footdragging."
Before a firm date for the case can be
set, it must be determined that three of
the five Student Supreme Court justices
are available to hear it, Kelly said. Kelly
plans to meet with Student Body Presi
dent Kevin Monroe to determine how
many justices from the spring semester
are still at UNC. , ,.
Reinhard, who will serve as counsel for
the plaintiffs, said he believes he has a
cfrong case against the choir.
"Given the information that we have
about their (the choir's) conduct, I don't
know how it cannot be considered reli
gious," he said. "If you look at what
they do and where they go, you cannot
help but come to the conclusion that they
are religious."
Reinhard declined to reveal specific
allegations against the choir for fear of
giving away his strategy in the case.
BSM President Sherrod Banks and
Gospel Choir Director Fletcher Gamble
were unavailable for comment Thursday.
But the BSM has long maintained that
the choir is a cultural rather than a reli
gious organization.
Assistant Student Attorney General
David Maslia, who will serve as counsel
for the defense in the case, said that the
CGC's continued overwhelming support
of the choir should serve as an indication
of the constitutionality of funding the
group. Defendants in the case include the
CGC, the BSM, Student Body Treasurer
Burke Mewborne, CGC Speaker James
Exum, BSM Treasurer David Hogan and
BSM Gospel Choir Treasurer Lee Cooley.
In the 1983-84 Student Government
budget passed last April, the CGC ap
proved a $1,700 budget for the choir.
During that April meeting, the council
voted 20-3 to reject a proposal by Rosen
to deny funds to the choir. It also rejected
a subsequent attempt by Reinhard to give
the choir only $1.
A separate complaint brought before
the court under the new constitutional
amendment may be dropped. Last April,
Phil Painter, a former CGC member, and
Leake Little, a former member of the
Student Attorney General's staff, op
posed the CGC's allocation of money to
lease buses to transport students to a pro
education rally at the N.C. General
Assembly in Raleigh. Little and Painter
charged that the rally was a political
event.
The plaintiffs were unable to obtain a
temporary restraining order to keep the
buses from going to Raleigh for the April
14 event, and Painter and Little have
since graduated.
Painter who is currently working as a
researcher on the re-election committee of
U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms said it was no
longer possible for him to pursue the
case.
"I just don't have the time. I'm work
ing real hard around here," he said.
Reinhard, who is listed as counsel for
Little and Painter, said he would seek
voluntary dismissal of the suit, although
he believes Student Government probably
acted unconstitutionally in leasing the
buses.
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