Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Labor's weakness is glaringly apparent in its biggest confrontation of the year -the coal miners' strike. Meany has told associates that the leadership of the United Mine Workers is inept. He also figures that the two-to three-month inventory of coal that has been stockpiled by utilities and steel companies will enable the operators to hold out until the union eventually knuckles under, a sentiment shared by the coal companies. The 165,000 striking union members, mostly in Appalachia, account for only half the nation's coal production. There are growing numbers of nonunion miners...
...commitments, these people were very much like me, with courses, exams, and papers to worry about, jobs, parties and personal relationships to deal with, and very little time in which to do it all. The difference between us was that they acted upon their concerns, while I just mouthed mine. Realizing this, I could find no reason not to become involved myself, since I cared about the apartheid issue as much as any of them. Instead of asking myself, "Why march?", I found myself asking...
...season. Christmas is simply more fun than Hanukkah, so any reasonable person will prefer Christmas. The holiday generates a lot of warmth, and besides, it's been totally secularized (to the chagrin of many Christians); so why not choose Christmas? Well, it never occured to me that Christmas was mine to choose. The birth of Jesus Christ, Savior, Son of God--I'm not sure, but he doesn't look Jewish...
Some production certainly will be lost. Even if an industrywide agreement were reached before midnight Monday, at least ten days would be required for a U.M.W. vote to ratify it-and in the mine union "no contract, no work" is a religion. But the economy will not be hurt for a long time, nor will the strikers and the companies be subjected to pressure from major coal users to settle quickly. As of early November, the users' bins were overflowing with 150.1 million tons of coal that had been stockpiled in anticipation of a strike. Electric utilities held...
...local walkouts during his re-election campaign this year (he won with barely 40% of the vote in a three-way race). Miller now contends that granting strike rights to locals would promote peace in the coal fields. His reasoning: locals armed with the right to strike could push mine owners to settle quickly grievances that now fester until workers' tempers explode in wildcat walkouts. Wildcats by U.M.W. locals so far this year have cost the coal companies 2.3 million man-days of work. Miners of District 17 in southern West Virginia struck for ten weeks last summer...