Two-year deal ends Bell Atlantic strike
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Bell Atlantic' s 73,000 striking workers ended a two-day walk-out after the phone company and its union reached a tentative two-year contract agreement. Morton Bahr, president of the Communications Workers of America, hailed the agreement which shifted the equivalent of 5,000 full-time jobs to temporary employees involved in wireless, data and corporate network services. The agreement will shift over 1,000 jobs to union workers, offer jobs to 3,000 temporary employees and create 1,600 new union slots. The contract stipulates, among other things, that employees cannot be force to work more than 10 or 15 hours of overtime per week, depending on the time of year.
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Its striking workers ended a 2-day walk-out after the phone company & its union reached a tentative 2-year contract agreement
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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Microsoft paints AOL-Netscape conspiracy
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Microsoft Corp. used e-mail excerpts to charge Internet service America Online with belittling the Internet browser offered by Netscape Communications during antitrust litigations. America Online CEO Steve Case is also providing support to Netscape Communications' antitrust charges against Microsoft since both America Online and Netscape Communications perceive Microsoft as a competitor, indicated Microsoft attorney John Warden. Microsoft came out with its own browser which America Online executive David Colburn believes can be used with America Online's service.
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Does not impress America Online Inc. with best Internet browser based on e-mail excerpts submitted by Microsoft Corp.
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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Microsoft loses bid to bar evidence
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Microsoft, accused by the government of attempting to monopolize the Web browser market, has failed to have evidence that it tried to divide the market with its rivals excluded from the proceedings. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said that he will decide on the testimony that will be admitted during the conduct of the trial that will begin on Oct. 15, 1998. Microsoft, according to the government's evidence, had tried to illegally divide the multimedia software market with Apple Computer, Intel and Netscape Communications, its main rival in the browser market.
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Has failed to have evidence that it tried to divide the market with its rivals excluded from the proceedings
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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