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Union and management negotiators did their best to give the proposed contract an optimistic send-off at a press conference in Washington's Capital Hilton Hotel. Said Nicholas Camicia, chief negotiator for the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association: "We think we have a package that will be very good for the union, very good for the country and [will] get our mines back to work." Added U.M.W. President Arnold Miller: "It's a pretty good contract...
Negotiators for the U.M.W. and coal operators initialed the new contract only eight days after the Carter Administration had obtained a temporary restraining order under the Taft-Hartley Act to get the striking miners back to work. As expected, nearly all of the miners ignored the order and stayed home. Of the 900 union mines closed by the strike, only a handful reopened. The Administration actually made little effort to enforce the order. Explained a Justice Department official: "We're trying not to rock the boat." Behind the scenes, however, mediators from the Department of Labor were pressuring operators...
...operators were equally upset. After meeting with the mediators, Camicia and Stonie Barker Jr., president of the Island Creek Coal Co., were driving back to their office when Barker suddenly suggested: "Why don't we go over and talk to those fellows ourselves?" Soon, they were at the gray stone U.M.W. headquarters. Camicia and Barker first demanded a new union negotiating team. The union bargainers refused. Unfazed, Camicia and Barker shifted the conversation to how negotiators for both sides should deal with the issues that still divided them. The conversation went so well that they decided to resume formal...
Their homes probably tell as much about the differences among the men who belong to the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association as the bottom lines of their companies' balance sheets. In suburban Pittsburgh, top executives of U.S. Steel, which owns the sixth largest coal company in the country, live in elegant mansions. In Greene County, Pa., the owners of small coal mines may own the biggest houses in town, which are usually simple frame dwellings. In Pikeville, Ky., some owners of mines that suddenly boomed because of the energy crisis have built French provincial-style houses, known locally...
...B.C.O.A.'s 130 members include large firms, among them Peabody Coal Co. In 1976 Peabody mined about 10% of the 671 million tons of coal produced in the U.S. Other big firms are the mining subsidiaries of big steel and oil companies. A big firm, such as Consolidation Coal Co., employs about 21,700 people. Companies of this size are often run by executives with degrees from the country's leading business schools. The rest of the membership comprises medium-size mines owned by utility companies, as well as many small independent operators who employ...