Word: mined
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Sexiest physical trait: Of mine? That’s the most awkward question ever...
...nearly within view. Using up that last ounce of Veritaffle-powered energy, I arrive and apologize profusely. As I catch my breath, the people I’m meeting grant their forgiveness and we get started. The thing is, the business of being late has become a habit of mine and this isn’t the first time it’s posed a problem...
Sweeney, then the president of the Service Employees International Union, was scheduled to give a speech to the crowds gathered to protest the lack of health insurance for retired mine workers. But, according to United Mine Workers’ then-President Richard L. Trumka, Sweeney was nowhere to be found...
Trumka, now Sweeney’s successor at the AFL-CIO, eventually discovered the lost labor leader amidst a group of displaced mine workers and had to “drag” Sweeney away from the workers and up to the stage to give his speech...
After demonstrations that led to Sweeney’s and Trumka’s arrests, the two union presidents and their fellow protesters could call this strike a success—the mine retirees eventually obtained health care coverage...