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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remained mired in struggles with erstwhile supporters who say that he has not shown effective leadership. Meanwhile, wildcat strikes by U.M.W. locals have mushroomed out of control. As a result, the U.M.W., now negotiating in Washington with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association for a new three-year contract, finds itself unable to do the two things that any labor union must do in contract talks: speak convincingly for its entire membership, and threaten management with a crippling strike if its demands...
Consequently, Milter insists that he will sign no contract unless it contains a clause granting each U.M.W. local the Bright, by majority vote, to strike over local issues. To the mine owners that sounds like an appeal to recognize, and even give their blessing to, a state of anarchy. Under Miller's leadership, they point out, man-days lost because of the unauthorized strikes have more than quadrupled; the total so far this year is 2.3 million. Most dam aging were a series of brushfire walkouts that spread from West Virginia to Kentucky and Ohio this past summer, idling...
Having belatedly realized its difficult bind, the U.M.W. has asked the mine operators to begin continuous daily meetings, rather than the previously planned weekly talks, in order to see if some sort of compromise can be reached before the contract deadline. Convinced that the miners are just now getting their demands straightened out, the employers seem in no hurry to oblige. But the mine owners could overplay their hand. Paradoxically, the U.M.W.'s trump card is that a prolonged strike could destroy the national union, leaving owners to deal entirely with the fractious, wildcatting locals. It is a thought...
...paper work, unrealistic guidelines and interminable delay. The overall expense of affirmative action is incalculable. The University of Utah, for example, estimates its annual cost of maintaining compliance records at $100,000 a year. Yet enforcement is mostly a matter of exhortations or threats. Although the Office of Federal Contract Compliance says it has helped discrimination victims collect $159 million in back pay, only 15 of 30,000 businesses dealing with the Federal Government have ever lost a federal contract because of race or sex discrimination, and no university has lost...
Harvard hired Howland's firm in the wake of complaints by the Harvard Police Association that efforts to reorganize the force had greatly lowered the officers' morale. The union refused to bargain for a new contract until the University took steps to solve what it called "the morale question...