ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 TAG: 9611060052
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-6 EDITION: METRO
Steelworkers, Bridgestone agree
CHICAGO - The United Steelworkers union and Bridgestone-Firestone Inc. said Tuesday they had reached a tentative agreement to end their 27-month dispute, one of the nation's nastiest in years. Details were not released by either side.
The deal also has some loose ends. ``There are still some things on the table that we can't live with,'' said Randy Gordon, an official with the union in Decatur, Ill.
``Nobody gave us a chance of getting to this point,'' said Ray Abernathy, a Washington-based consultant who has helped direct the steelworkers' campaign against the firm, an arm of Bridgestone Corp., the world's largest tiremaker.
About 4,000 workers struck the Japanese company in July 1994 after the firm balked at a contract signed by other major tiremakers. The firm hired 2,300 replacements and six months later, said they were permanent hires.
-Knight-Ridder/Tribune
A.L.I. Computers is Bell Internet agent
A.L.I. Computers Inc. has become an authorized agent for Bell Atlantic Internet Services in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Blacksburg company said it is authorized to offer Bell Atlantic services immediately to owners of single workstations or with local computer networks. The services are provided over standard phone lines or through a variety of other technologies at various access speeds.
- Staff report
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