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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came. The union leader was accosted by an aide who yelled: "Come back right away!" Miller hustled down the block to U.M.W. headquarters, conferred with other officials for ten minutes, then announced that he was "delighted." He said he was urging the union rank and file to ratify the contract "so they can get back to work as soon as possible...
Those aggravations do not appear in the contract between the U.M.W. and the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co., which employs some 700 miners. While offering roughly the same wage increase ($1 an hour in the first year, 700 in each of the next two years), the company agreed to guarantee the health fund and restrict antiwildcat penalties to strike leaders and actual picketers...
...small settlement buoyed the union?and also cheered up Labor Secretary Ray Marshall. Communications between the union and the B.C.O.A. had broken down over the previous weekend. Here, thought Marshall and his mediators, was another path to try?using the P. & M. agreement as a pattern for a national contract with the U.M.W. Marshall's aides began meeting separately with the two sides at Labor Department headquarters on Monday afternoon...
...White House officials began calling coal companies, suggesting that the bargaining might be declared to be at an "impasse"?a technical term that would serve to dissolve the national contract talks and pit individual companies against union locals. The Administration also began to encourage executives in other industries to call their coal-company peers, urging settlement. Finally the Governors of afflicted states joined the cam paign, and mine owners complained that none-too-subtle threats were coming from state regulatory officials. Among them: that holdouts might face sudden delays in obtaining permits for strip mining and other operations...
...already had scheduled games for this weekend," Kleinfelder said, "and we didn't feel we should break a contract. It would have been nice to play in the tourney, but we've played enough Division One schools this season to know where we stand--about fifth or sixth, maybe fourth or fifth in Massachusetts...