Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harkin, a coal miner's son who served as a Navy pilot in Viet Nam, is trying to exploit Jepsen's gaffes with the campaign slogan: "Tom Harkin-a Senator lowans can be proud of." Jepsen has sought to make Harkin's liberal voting record the key issue. But though Iowa's voters tend to be conservative on most social issues, they are less so on matters of military and foreign policy. Harkin, who has won five successive terms in a Republican district in southwest Iowa, has tried to deflect criticism of his opposition...
...strike would have been the first legal job action by South Africa's black miners since their union, the National Union of Mineworkers, was formed in 1982. The walkout at gold and coal mines was called off at the last minute, however, when management agreed to raise the workers' holiday pay. But word of the compromise evidently did not reach all the mines, and throughout the gold-rich Transvaal and Orange Free State some 40,000 blacks refused to go underground for their usual shifts. When they did not disperse, police riot squads moved in, and the angry...
Barely two hours later, Richard Trumka, president of the United Mine Workers, emerged from a suite at the Sheraton Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., to announce tentative agreement on a new 40-month contract with the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. Trumka called the deal "a giant step forward in this industry." If miners approve the contract, it will be the first time since 1964 that the U.M.W. has reached a new wage agreement without a strike...
...their leaders and hitting the picket line. Five times in the past two decades, workers have gone on strike. In 1977-78 the miners were out for 111 days, and in 1981 the walkout lasted 72 days. But U.M.W. President Trumka this year was determined to break precedent. The coal miner turned lawyer wanted to win better salaries and better job security-without recourse to a strike. When the talks in Washington ended, he claimed to have secured a "totally non-concessionary" agreement. "It makes no giveback, no takeaways," said the U.M.W president. "It makes gains in wages. It makes...
...neither is the British coal strike so far removed from American labor-management relations-a fact to which the General Motors workers bear testimony. America may soon face a union militancy comparable to that of the British coal miners if workers feel that they are being left in the wake of economic progress. As in Britain, politicians in the U.S. have done little to help those vast areas where the decline of old industries threatens hundreds of communities...