Word: kinnocks
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...months after a British policewoman was killed by shots fired from Libya's London embassy, sparked a public outcry. "It is dreadful that this union would approach a terrorist country for help," said Ted MacKay, head of the mineworkers' North Wales branch. Declared Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock, who has supported the strike: "By any mea sure of political, civil, trade union or human rights, the Gaddafi regime is vile...
...determined to win more support for Britain's unpopular 30-week coal miners' strike, was Arthur Scargill, 46, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mine workers. On the other, with an eye on Labor's sagging ratings in the polls, was Party Leader Neil Kinnock...
Scargill spoke passionately for a motion to condemn police, not the strikers, for the violence on the picket lines. The measure passed amid tumult and cheers for the N.U.M. president and hoots of derision for moderate union leaders. Then Kinnock lost another battle, this one over an arcane party rule giving local constituency committees-usually a stronghold of party leftists-the power to decide whether their parliamentary representatives should be allowed to stand for reelection. Kinnock wanted all Labor Party members, not just the tightly held local committees, to have a vote in the process. The conference rejected his proposal...
That showed just how far Kinnock's star has fallen. Only a year ago, he was elected to unite the divided party and lead it away from its 1983 election defeat, Labor's worst showing in 50 years. Since then, the "Scargill factor," the link in the public mind between Labor and the miners, has lowered Kinnock's approval rating from 58% to only...
...mineworkers' strike. If the supervisors, who are essential to mine safety, walk out as well, the industry could be shut down completely. At week's end the supervisors had not yet struck, and were pushing for arbitration to settle the broader dispute. For now, though, to Kinnock's discomfort and the nation's unease, the Coal Board and its workers seem to prefer fighting to talking...