. Bell telephone magazine . s and are leaderstoday in their Benefit and PensionPlans. Telephone work is generallysteady work, and this is an up-from-the-ranks business with unusual op-portunities for advancement. Infact, for every five employees in theTelephone Companies, there aremore than two promotions to better jobs at higher pay in an average five-year period. Present contracts between thevarious Companies and the unionsprovide for higher wage pavments inthe coming year for the large major-ity of all non-management em-ployees. Nevertheless, many of theunions have made heavy additionaldema
. Bell telephone magazine . s and are leaderstoday in their Benefit and PensionPlans. Telephone work is generallysteady work, and this is an up-from-the-ranks business with unusual op-portunities for advancement. Infact, for every five employees in theTelephone Companies, there aremore than two promotions to better jobs at higher pay in an average five-year period. Present contracts between thevarious Companies and the unionsprovide for higher wage pavments inthe coming year for the large major-ity of all non-management em-ployees. Nevertheless, many of theunions have made heavy additionaldemands, and the leaders of theCommunications Workers of Amer-ica (CIO), whose divisions repre-sent about half of all employees ofBell Companies who are representedby unions, have threatened a strikeon April 25 unless agreements satis-factory to them are reached. I hardly need to say that the Com-panies concerned are intent on doingeverything they properly can toavoid any interruption of telephone 1950 Events of Great Magnitude. Teletypewriter service in operation—the written word by telephone—was a featureof the display. Here it is being explained to A. T. i£ T. Directors James F. Bell and 1 annevar Bush service. They are also keenly awarethat they should be fair not only totheir employees but equally fair totelephone users who pay the importance of this becomes allthe more clear when it is remem-bered that further wage increaseswould immediately call for addi-tional rate increases beyond thosealready authorized and pending, andalso beyond those which must still beapplied for to meet past rises in Companies have carefullychecked their wages with the wagespaid by others in the areas theyserve, and have found that telephonewages and over-all working condi-tions compare extremely well withoutside industry. The Companieshave also asked the unions to presentfactual data in support of their fur- ther demands, but little has beenforthcoming in that respect. I wish
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