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7.5% with an increase of only
0.6% over last year. Laborers are
underrepresented at only 16 per
sons. Much work in this category
is contracted to outside sources.
In this group, 6.3 were women or
an increase of 1.0% over last year.
Minorities were 18.8% of the
force accounting for a 3.0% in
crease over last year. There are 24
cafeteria workers with women
counting 50% an increase of
6 .5 % . A s in g le
m in o r ity
represented 4.2%, a decrease of
8.8%.
Of all the groups investigated
thus far PGE’s affirmative action
experience is mediocre with
regard to the employment of
women and minorities. Women
represent only 29.8% of the total
work force with 58.7 of them
clustered in low paying office and
clerical positions. The total
minority count is even worse.
They represent only 7.7% of the
work force. Only the laborers and
service workers reflect their
numbers in the general popula
tion.
On the other hand, General
Telephone and Electronics (GTE)
like many other large corpora
tions is laboring under the pro
blem of adjusting to consolida
tions dictated by its recent re
organization. In that process a
healthy portion of the staff was
down sized. The purported cost
saving reductions were dictated
by the fact that GTE had almost
30% more staff per 10,000 local
access lines than Is average for
the industry.
Within the new structure and
under a new chairman of the
board the GTE strategy w ill be to
concentrate on communications,
lighting and precision materials.
It is their stated commitment to
give th e ir em ployees oppor
tunities to expand and to enhance
their careers so that GTE will be
an excellent workplace. In order
to enhance their competitive
position in the market, GTE will
start a trial of fiber optics to
homes in California soon. Later,
they w ill also offer cable televi
sion.
GTE suffers certain disadvan
tages not only because of its size
and resources as compared with
some of the other giants, but also
because of Its absence from the
international market place. It also
has fallen victim to being by pass
ed for switching purposes where
competitive giants own parallel
services.
One of the peculiarities of the
recent restructuring is the EEO
statistics are tabulated and filed
in Everett, Washington. It took
numerous calls to Vickie Stelljis,
the EEO administrator before
positive contact could be estab
lished. Miss Stelljis was covering
both her office and alos another
activity. The statistics she con
veyed to me included both the
s ta te s
of
O re g o n
and
W a s h in g to n . M is s S t e lljis
assured me, however, that the
statistics of both states are com
parable. GTE employees a total of
5,600 in both states, Of the 695
managers, 28% are women,
0.86% are Black and 4.0%
m inorities. Their 726 profes
sionals are staffed by 35.6%
women, 1.2% Blacks and 6.0%
minorities. Within the technical
group of 53, a surprising 83% Is
female, none Is Black and 1.9%
are minorities. Of the 96 sales
people there Is a healthy 64.4%
female staff, while none Is Black
and 4.7% are minorities. Among
the 1885 low paying clerical
workers where minorities and
females usually cluster It Is not
surprising to discover that 93%
are women but it Is discouraging
th a t 1.5% are B la c k and
m inorities account for 7.1%.
Their staff of 1857 skilled craft
persons boasts 10.6% women,
1.18%
B la c k s and 5.3%
minorities. There are 192 persons
who are classified at the low pay
ing operator level, 58% are
women, 1.0% is Black and 5.7%
minority. Laborers are contracted
from the outside. Only one per
son, a woman was listed In that
group.
It would appear that GTE Is an
old fashioned pyramid whose
management Is dominated by the
white male tradition, to the exclu
sion of women and minorities. It
Is not the purpose of this series to
pit one member of a particular in
dustry with another, but If ope Is
to criticize there must be a
reference point. Since GTE's
main business Is communica
tions. Pacific Northwest Bell
becomes the benchmark. Not on
ly does PNB have Black ex
ecutives an female presidents of
divisions ‘but the same fact is
repeated th ro u g h o u t m iddle
management.
A recent article In Telephony, a
trade communication magazine,
focused on the ever Increasing
role women play In the telephone
Industry. Kimberly Johnston-
Rodriguez of GTE entrepreneur-
ship programs adm itted the
gender disparity. Carolyn Burger
put It another way, "This Is an old
boy (substitute white) network In
th world.” It Is to be hoped that
the words of Ted Brophy, GTE’s
new CEO, will have a positive ef
fect on Increasing employment
and promotional opportunities for
women and minorities at GTE.
Dwarfed among the giant com
munications companies Is the
Continental Telephone Company.
Even though they are listed In the
telephone book few people have
heard of them. They service
20,000 subscribers In Sunnyside-
Damascus. N a tionw ide they
employ 23,000 people with about
900 In th Northwest Division and
only 92 persons In Oregon. I at
tempted all during the week to get
information from Rosemary Davis
In Bellevue, Washington who was
not readily available but demurred
when she learned of what Infor
mation I sought. Miss Davis then
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referred me to Dave Jacobsen in
Bakersfield, California who then
informed me that it was against
company policy to reveal such In
formation to the public. I then in
formed Mr. Jacobsen that this in
formation was In the public do
main, especially since it was a re
quirement of the Civil Rights
Commission and also a require
ment of the Security Exchange
Commission. He again refused
citing company policy and refer
red me to Tom Ask In Atlanta,
Georgia. Perceiving that I was
getting the royale run around, I
then had a stockholder to call the
corporate headquarters which In
turn spieled the same obfusca
tion. We will now direct our atten
tion to the entire corporate struc
ture of the Continental Telephone
Company. It Is obvious that they
need to experience the realities of
20th century corporate respon
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Bureau Advisory Committees
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