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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plus benefits-as over an issue that seems more emotional than rational. The union is demanding that each of its 1,200 locals have the right to strike whenever a majority of its members vote for a walkout. For the operators, this would defeat the whole purpose of a contract. The result might be a condition of anarchy, as compared with the disarray that already prevails in the mines. All this year, one wildcat strike after another has been called by rebellious locals over issues that ranged all the way down to who is responsible for carrying into the mines...
After the contract expired at 12:01 a.m. Dec. 6, it did seem as if the workers were going to suffer more than the companies. Health benefits were cut off because employers are no longer contributing to the insurance fund for the 901,000 miners, retirees and dependents. Contributions to the fund, which had already been depleted by all the wildcat strikes, are based on production and hours worked. Many miners and their families have stopped going to a doctor because they cannot afford...
...considers "challenging but not rewarding." He wants to be a commentator. Last summer, with the approach of Eric Sevareid's retirement, CBS News President Dick Salant talked to Chancellor about the job. Chancellor was intrigued but decided to stay with NBC, and in his new ten-year contract has the assurance of shortly becoming a commentator. As for CBS, unable to get either Chancellor or Bill Moyers, Salant decided not to fill the 2½-minute Sevareid spot: "After all, it's 10% of our news hole...
Some production certainly will be lost. Even if an industrywide agreement were reached before midnight Monday, at least ten days would be required for a U.M.W. vote to ratify it-and in the mine union "no contract, no work" is a religion. But the economy will not be hurt for a long time, nor will the strikers and the companies be subjected to pressure from major coal users to settle quickly. As of early November, the users' bins were overflowing with 150.1 million tons of coal that had been stockpiled in anticipation of a strike. Electric utilities held...
...else in the U.S. Accordingly, unions have called for a nationwide boycott of Stevens' goods, and sought and won several court convictions of the company for unfair labor practices-all to no avail. Not one of Stevens' 85 plants, mostly in the Deep South, has a union contract;" workers at seven mills in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., have voted for representation by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, but the A.C.T.W.U. has been unable to get Stevens to sign...