Word: coal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still burns brightly in the hearts and imaginations of many Europeans, decades after unions first began to stand up for the working man and woman. But labor's problems--chronic unemployment, dwindling membership, the shifting nature of work, waning public support--are immense. If the failure of the British coal miners' strike holds a lesson for European labor, it may be this: the future of unionized workers is inextricably bound up with the health of the companies and industries in which they work. Unions, like companies and industries, cannot survive unless they learn how to change...
Business: Industrial raw materialist such as minerals, coal...
South African operations: "Virtually nil," according to spokesman A. Newell Garden. A wholly-owned Raytheon subsidiary, Badger Co. of Cambridge, employees two Europeans who are working on a South African government plant to convert coal into synthetic oil. Raytheon has no equity interest in the company and does not have any factories there, Garden said...
...strike was sparked by the National Coal Board's plan to "modernize" Britain's coal industry by closing as many as 20 "unprofitable" mines, putting some 20,000 miners out of work. Because none of its demands have been met, the N.U.M. appears to have suffered a humiliating defeat. After Sunday's vote, however, the head of the union's 24-member executive committee, Arthur Scargill, called the strike "a tremendous achievement" and vowed that the union would carry on its struggle against the government's "war of attrition...
Even though Kinnock later accepted her explanation, the vitriolic Commons exchange was a bitter pill for Thatcher at a time when she should have been happily celebrating her tenth anniversary as Conservative Party leader. To add to her troubles, Britain's eleven-month-old coal miners' strike dragged on, even as a major poll put the Labor Party neck and neck with the Conservatives at 37%, an 8-point drop for the Tories in the 20 months since the last general election...