Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Other big firms are the mining subsidiaries of big steel and oil companies. A big firm, such as Consolidation Coal Co., employs about 21,700 people. Companies of this size are often run by executives with degrees from the country's leading business schools. The rest of the membership comprises medium-size mines owned by utility companies, as well as many small independent operators who employ as few as a dozen miners. Said one such owner in western Pennsylvania: "I drink beer with my men at the tavern. I know them well, and my father knew their fathers...
...University made two proposals to the union Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, but James P. Costello, general agent for Local 40, said the union membership rejected both offers in early-morning meetings...
...order of a Taft-Hartley injunction only angered and bewildered the UMWA, leaving many miners muttering John L. Lewis's 1943 offer in a similar situation: "Let them dig coal with bayonets." Tacitly disregarded by the UMWA, perhaps more than anything else the injunction strengthened the resolve of the membership to stay out until the strike was won. The federal judge who refused to sign the order last week is to be applauded; in a turnabout, miners hampered in the past by injunctions from federal district court judges are left with the sinking feeling that only the federal bench...
...over matters of union policy. There is no wistful feeling for the days of the corrupt Tony Boyle; and it is not the influx of too much democracy into the union, as some observers have suggested, but a simple feeling that perhaps Arnold Miller has lost touch with the membership...
Miller, the winner of a bitterly-contested three-way race, was re-elected as union president last June with barely 40 per cent of the vote, and has certainly given the miners nothing to be cheerful about in the past few months. The UMWA is rare in that the membership votes on all contracts; it is thought that the union president will not test his prestige on contracts the rank-and-file are likely to reject. Miller has already done this, on a contract that contained such regressive measures as the fining of miners who walk-out on wildcat strikes...