For the first time in history, leaders of Ameritech unions from around the world gathered to send a clear message to Ameritech's managers and directors.

Trade union leaders from the USA, Belgium, Hungary and Denmark appeared outside the Arthur Rubloff Auditorium at the Art Institute of Chicago, prior to the Ameritech shareholders' meeting on Wednesday, April 15.

The unions formed an Ameritech Alliance in meetings earlier this year in
Brussels. The Alliance was formed to "protect and further the interests
of Ameritech workers throughout the world."

Today they announced the first-ever coordinated day of action among
telephone unions world-wide at a single company. On June 24, 1998 there
will be an "International Day of Action to Protect Jobs and the Right to
Organize at Ameritech".

IBEW T-4 (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) Council Chair Don Moseley stated: "Protecting jobs for the future is a common concern for all of us, on June 24th, we will stand up around the world to send this message to Ameritech."

According to Communications Workers of America (CWA) District Vice President Jeff Rechenbach: "While we will not announce the details of our activities for June 24th, we do plan to have coordinated actions occur at

Ameritech work places, on the job, around the world."

In addition to Moseley and Rechenbach, the following union leaders were present: Jozef Verbruggen from Belgium (Centrale Generale des Services Publics-Secteur Telecom (CGSP-T)), Jozsef Szalai and Jozsef Meszaros from Hungary (Hungarian Union of Telecommunications Sector (MATASZ)), Bo S. Larson from Denmark Telekommunications Forbundet (TKF)), and Phillip Bowyer, Christine Auberson and Neil Anderson of the Communications International , the alliance of world-wide telecommunications unions.

Following the 8:45 a.m. news conference, the leaders and the hundreds of rank and file members attended the Ameritech shareholders' meeting. This was the largest crowd of union members to attend a shareholders' meeting in the history of Ameritech. SOURCE CWA District 4

Copyright 1998, PR Newswire

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Contact:

Seth Rosen of CWA, 440-333-6363; or Jim Kassing of IBEW, 312-236-5511