John W. Shaughnessy, Jr., President, Correspondence, 1984

re. divestiture of AT&T and deregulation and the effects felt by TIU; Union of Telephone Workers disaffiliate from TIU; affiliation proposals with AFSCME, Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; special Convention called, February 10, 1984, for the three AFL-CIO unions to make presentations; includes union propaganda; re. Federal court rulings on TIU status; re. Imogene Amirault court case to exclude eleven of the thirteen TIU member unions from participating in a special convention to affiliate with AFL-CIO; Shaughnessy's protest of his re-election defeat as President of Connecticut Union of Telephone Workers.