Word: mined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They're both very good friends of mine. You've got to see it from my point of view. I wasn't buying things. I wasn't trying to sell some product or get some special treatment...
...American coal miners to win twentieth century working conditions has arrived. The economic climate, which has traditionally been to the advantage of the management, has been drastically altered by the rise in fuel prices. Economic conditions unconducive to equitable contract settlements have existed almost continuously since the United Mine Workers' inception in 1892. In the early' nineties the union won modest gains for its members until technological advances in the industry and a decline in coal prices reduced the coal companies' need for manpower. This trend continued through the 1950's when the introduction of such fully automated equipment...
...response to union demands, industry officials are pointing to comparatively high wage levels of $50 a day and a worker absenteeism rate of over 15 per cent. But mine owners were slow to adjust to the operating standards of the 1969 National Mining Safety Act and do not relish the prospect of accepting more stringent Union safety regulations. The industry's sole defense against Union demands for higher pensions is their supposedly inflationary effect. But the operators just don't have enough leverage to counter the new bargaining power labor enjoys...
Arnold Miller's democratic, grassroots approach to organized labor has done much to mitigate the calcification that the United Mine Workers leadership experienced under the autocratic tenures of John L. Lewis and Tony (W.A.) Boyle. An industry formerly saddled with a union in which, in Miller's words, "you couldn't tell labor from management" now has a more progressive, responsive union leadership. If the coal industry is to fill the energy gap it must extend the long overdue benefits to the miners and eliminate the unhealthy working conditions that cause absenteeism and wildcat strikes...
First, it would have violated my concept of commitment and family - mine both by religion and conviction - to leave my husband as you stated. Second, I hold a much more positive view of the political life, which is hard but has many rewards. As I wrote in Private Faces/ Public Places: "Gene left our home in August of 1969 ... I do not regret that for 30 years, in the words of Simone de Beauvoir, 'I spontaneously preferred an other existence to my own.' I think I am a much richer person for having shared that existence . . . Despite...