Word: membership
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Today, his union's fortunes are dismal. With 194,000 active members, and 90,000 retirees to represent (peak membership: 600,000 in 1946), the U.M.W. is badly wounded. Three of the four pension and medical-benefit trust funds are broke. The union, which owns more than 75% of the National Bank of Washington (assets: $682 million), real estate in the capital and a Western fuel company, may have to sell some of its holdings. Perhaps most troubling of all, the U.M.W. is in a state of near anarchy, having overwhelmingly rejected its leadership's call to ratify...
Lewis also left a dubious choice as his successor: W.A. ("Tony") Boyle. Boyle continued to rule the union in Lewis' dictatorial style and further alienated the membership by largely ignoring their wishes for fringe benefits. Boyle kept dissident miners at bay by packing union conventions with his own delegates. He finally lost his hold following the 1969 union election. Dissident Leader Joseph Yablonski had waged a fierce campaign, citing Boyle as an embezzler of union pension funds. Boyle claimed victory; Yablonski charged the election was fixed and asked the Labor Department to investigate. Three weeks later Yablonski, his wife...
When Arnold Miller, 54, rode the wave of miners' dissent into power, he promised to democratize the union. That he did-the expired contract was the first ever to be voted on by the membership. "In the old days," says a West Virginia district leader, "a contract was sent down and the membership just went back to work. Now you have all this freedom...
Harvard University women's swim coach Stephanie Walsh was elected president of the National Collegiate Women's Swimming Coaches Association yesterday at the association's meeting at Duke University. The membership of the committee elected coach Walsh to the position for the next two years...
Probably the most important demand-- providing student representation on the board of trustees--will never come to pass. The president and provost agreed to endorse a compromise resolution calling for the board to add one student and one faculty representative, both with voting rights, to its membership--but the proposal must be approved by a vote of the full board before going into effect...