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To: Skip_S who wrote (2973)	7/7/1998 11:46:00 AM
From: William Hunt	Respond to of 21876

THREAD ---IRS needs help---Dow Jones Newswires -- July 6, 1998 Lucent Joins Computer Sciences Team Pursuing IRS Pact>LU CSC FALLS CHURCH, Va. (Dow Jones)--Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU) joined Computer Sciences Corp.'s (CSC) Prime Alliance team, which is pursuing an integration services contract from the Internal Revenue Service. In a press release Monday, Computer Sciences said Lucent will design technical solutions during the early phase of the project. Other companies on Computer Sciences' team are International Business Machines (IBM), Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC), Unisys Corp. (UIS), KPMG Peat Marwick and SAIC. Computer Sciences, which had revenues of $6.6 billion for the year ended April 3, provides professional services and operations support. BEST WISHES BILL

To: Skip_S who wrote (2973)	7/7/1998 11:53:00 AM
From: William Hunt	Respond to of 21876

THREAD ---MORE DETAIL -- Ohio's Greatest Home Newspaper Search dispatch.com Back to the home page Local Lucent workers walk off job July 7, 1998 By Brian Williams Dispatch Business Reporter Employees blame the strike on the use of subcontractors. Twenty-five hundred union workers at Lucent Technologies' plant on the East Side walked off the job yesterday to protest the use of nonunion subcontractors. Members of two International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers locals want manufacturing to stay in the hands of Lucent employees instead of being sent out, said Bob Kramer, vice president of IBEW Local 2020. He said union officials from Washington and company officials from Murray Hill, N.J., will be in Columbus today to discuss the stalemate. A month ago, the telecommunications giant reached an agreement with two unions representing one-third of its national work force, giving workers better pay and benefits. The agreement with IBEW and the Communications Workers of America left certain local issues unresolved, including outsourcing in Columbus. There are 2,500 IBEW members in two locals in Columbus and no CWA members. Su Lok, a Lucent spokeswoman in Columbus, explained that the national agreement focused on broad issues like wages and compensation and left day-to-day issues to local negotiations. She said the company was surprised that the unions decided to strike, beginning at 5:30 a.m. yesterday. "Up until last week, we had continued local negotiations,'' Lok said. "We were surprised by their decision to call a work stoppage.'' In the meantime, Lucent plans to maintain production at 6200 E. Broad St. using several hundred managers and engineers in production jobs. "We've continued business as usual here,'' Lok said. Lok said the company seeks to negotiate a contract that's fair to employees but keeps the company competitive. But representatives of IBEW Locals 2020 and 1620 say they've given up enough. Local 2020 represents production line workers; Local 1620 represents clerical workers. "The issues are movement of personnel, outsourcing and subcontracting,'' Kramer said. "We thought we had a tentative agreement, but we took it back to the folks, and they didn't like it.'' He said the union went back to Lucent but couldn't get changes they felt they could take back to union members. He said the locals, which had authorized a strike vote, decided to strike. Lucent, a telecommunications equipment company spun off from AT&T Corp. in September 1996, has 131,000 workers worldwide and employs 5,500 in Columbus, where it produces switching equipment for cellular telephone companies. "They used to build pretty much everything they used,'' Kramer said. "Times have changed. Now they want to outsource damn near everything. It's union-busting tactics. ... It's work that we've had, and they continually take it away.'' BEST WISHES BILL