Word: coal
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Those aggravations do not appear in the contract between the U.M.W. and the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co., which employs some 700 miners. While offering roughly the same wage increase ($1 an hour in the first year, 700 in each of the next two years), the company agreed to guarantee the health fund and restrict antiwildcat penalties to strike leaders and actual picketers...
...Tuesday the President breakfasted with Democratic and Republican leaders from the House and Senate to keep them up to date and also to test their views. All sides favored stronger presidential action, but Carter aides were wary of congressional delays on a step as controversial as seizure of the coal mines...
Later that day the coal operators turned down the Pittsburg & Midway settlement as a pattern setter. Said one B.C.O.A. leader, in snide reference to P. & M.'s ownership by Big Oil: "No filling-station operation is going to influence these negotiations...
...B.C.O.A., however, was badly divided. Many of its member corporations, subsidiaries of Big Steel or Big Oil, or completely independent, respond to widely differing business impulses. Their executives split between hard-and soft-line bargainers. Squabbling between those factions impaired the B.C.O.A.'s flexibility and judgment. Still, the coal operators tried a counterplay late Tuesday night. They issued a call for binding arbitration of the dispute. The union said...
...White House officials began calling coal companies, suggesting that the bargaining might be declared to be at an "impasse"?a technical term that would serve to dissolve the national contract talks and pit individual companies against union locals. The Administration also began to encourage executives in other industries to call their coal-company peers, urging settlement. Finally the Governors of afflicted states joined the cam paign, and mine owners complained that none-too-subtle threats were coming from state regulatory officials. Among them: that holdouts might face sudden delays in obtaining permits for strip mining and other operations...