In sum, U S WEST's service quality problems are having a strong negative impact on shareholder value. Repeat trouble reports as a percent of trouble reports increased significantly over the past three years. In 1997, one-third of all customers logging trouble reports had to call at least a second time to get their problem fixed. State Utility Commissions rely on service quality data to impose fines, permit rate increases, and force rate cuts and consumer refunds. U S WEST has elected to further undermine shareholder value by provoking a strike with its largest labor union.
Copper is gold and thousands of workers are needed to ensure that the network functions.
We have to focus on individual donations from the many people who support Initiative 688 because they know it is the right thing to do. I-688 all signed these pledge cards, we would have the money we need to respond to the misinformation campaign about to be launched on our citizens to defeat the minimum wage initiative. Speaker after convention speaker spoke of the inspired effort in Washington to become the first state to index its minimum wage to the rising cost of living. They all agreed that a victory in November here would inspire other states to take the politics out of the minimum wage by indexing theirs as well.