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Show 4D The Salt Lake Tribune, 190 Full-Tim- l)v Tuesday, January 21, 1966 linin' llaniinond Positions e Jobs Created by New AT&T Facility In Murray May Not Go to Utahns By Steven Oberbeck Tribune Staff Writer The good news is that AT&T plans to open a 6 million Credit Management Center in Murray that will employ 700 people. What went unmentioned at AT&T's press conference last Thursday is that it is not clear how many of the jobs at approximately 490 the center will go to Utah residents. Last August AT&T announced it planned to lay off 24,000 people companywide in its Information Systems the companys communicaGroup tions equipment unit. Many of those 24,000 people, and anyone else currently working for AT&T, will get first chance at the Utah jobs. "We will definitely be pushing for our members who were laid off and are still looking for work to be first choice for those jobs," said Rozanne W'eissman, public affairs director at the Communications Workers of America headquarters in Washing-- " full-tim- ; ' e ton, D.C. "When the center opens if any of our members are still looking for work and would like to relocate to Utah, I think they should be given the opportunity for employment there," she said, estimating that over 4,000 CWA members who were laid off have yet to find employment. The facility will begin hiring in the positions will be for clerical workers. Larry Larson, the director of the CWA, said his organization will be pushing for rehiring rights for any of its approximately 50 Utah members who were affected by the layoff late last year and who might be interested in working at the new credit center once it opens. "While many of our members who were laid off last year have different skills than what will be needed in the new center, I think some of them could go to work there, he said. Harold Wilson, executive vice president of CWA Local 8304 in Salt Lake City, said he hopes the union will be able to place quite a few people at the new center once it is on 1987. Most of g line. "I'm sure AT&T will also be bringing in at least a skeleton management crew, Mr. Wilson said. He indicated that other jobs might be filled by local AT&T workers moving laterally within the company. "But its really too early to tell how things are going to work out. Diane Tipton, the regional managof public relations for AT&T, said it has always been the company's policy to look first to its present and past employees when new jobs open up. er "They certainly would have the opportunity to be considered, Ms. Tip-tosaid, "but I think that the majority of the jobs at the Utah center will be filled by people who live in the area." Of the estimated 700 people the center is expected to employ, 210 positions will be part time and will certainly go to local residents, she said. n Ms. Tipton said a large percentage of the workers who were layed off last year by AT&T have already found work. She also said some of the employees who lost their jobs in the massive AT&T layoff were not willing to relocate to secure other jobs within the company. "Many of the people who left the payroll did so because they were not mobile and for that reason I don't think that many of the former AT&T employees would want to relocate to Utah," she said. of the Utah Department of Community and Economic Development, said he had no comment. The Department of Community and Economic Development was lauded by one AT&T official for its support role in attracting the credit center to Utah. state-funde- d The new credit center will be developed to handle customer accounts e for calling services, ac principally collection on past-du- e counts, AT&T said. AT&T indicated last Thursday it has notified Mountain Bell that it intends to assume most of the customer contact, billing and collection work now handled under contract by Mountain Bell. Mountain Bell's Staff Manager Barbara Graham, said Mountain Bell is anticipating there will be a small staff reduction as a result of the termination of its contract with AT&T. We don't know exactly what the impact will be. I hope that the people who will be impacted can be absorbed by Mountain Bell in other positions. It's still too early to tell what will happen." Buhler, Gov. Norm administrative assistant for economic development, said while the state cannot control who AT&T hires one of the reasons they gave for locating here was the quality of our work force. David Ban-gerter- 's In addition, a large number of AT&T Information System employees who were laid off had a background in high technology and would not want to relocate for clerical work, she said. Asked through his secretary about the possibility that some of the AT&T h residents, jobs could go to non-Uta- David Adams, the executive director liHBHHHHBiH O Ci Our Turbo measures performance on a scale of 0-5- 00. While the Peugeot 505 Turbo can take you from in a commendable 6.2 seconds, what it can do is equally as impressive. That's from in miles. 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