Workers at AT&T To Drop to 3,979 At - Omaha World-Herald (NE) -

September 20, 1985

September 20, 1985 | Omaha World-Herald (NE) | Steve Jordon

American T elephone & T elegraph's Omaha Works employment will drop to 3,979 people, a two -
year low, after 198 hourly workers are laid off next Friday.

T he layoffs, announced late T hursday, are because of decreased demand for the telephone
distribution equipment produced at the Millard - area plant.

Next Friday's layoff will bring the total job reduction at the plant this year to 919 people. Earlier
layoffs took place in April, May and August.

T he Omaha Works is part of AT &T T echnologies. Another AT &T division, AT &T Information
Systems, announced 220 layoffs in Nebraska earlier this month, including a 202 - employee layoff
at the service and distribution center at 68th and F Streets.

AT &T Information Systems is eliminating a total of 24,000 jobs by the end of this year, cutting
employment to 93,000 people to reduce expenses and improve profits.

Jack Childs, general manager of the Omaha Works , Friday attributed the latest layoff partly to
AT &T Information Systems' cutbacks. T he Omaha Works supplies products to Information
Systems plants in Denver and Shreveport, La., which have laid off workers.

Omaha Works spokesman Paul Pickrel said most of the people affected by the latest Omaha
Works layoff have worked for the plant for two years or less.

T heir union contracts provide that they have the right to be recalled for two years. Pickrel said he
did not know whether they would be recalled.

He said next year's production schedule may be more stable than this year's, but there is no way
to guarantee that additional jobs would not be lost by falling product demand.

CIT AT ION (AGLC ST YLE)

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