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Though Church stumped the pit heads from Springfield, Ill., to Pittsburgh to push the pact, the union rebuffed it by a vote of more than 2 to 1. Many members argued that provisions in the contract gave mine operators power to lease coal property to nonunion companies as well as skimp on contributions to pension funds. On the other hand, industry officials seemed to feel that the rejection simply reflected the union's weakening grasp its members. Said one: "Facts had nothing to do with it. Rationality went out the window. What developed was emotion, suspicion and misinformation...
Because big coal users like public utilities and heavy industry have stockpiles that should last nearly four months, the U.S. is in good shape to weather a fairly long strike. The U.M.W. itself is another matter. Union membership has grown slightly, while nonunion mines have proliferated in the East and Midwest, along with the sprawling strip-mining operations of the Rocky Mountain states. As a result, mines covered by the U.M.W. agreement currently account for only 44% of overall U.S. coal production and the strike will probably reduce this figure further. Said Doug Heape, 23, a Tamaroa, Ill., miner with...
...hike. Instead, the talks bogged down over a bin of noneconomic issues. To increase productivity, for instance, the operators want to mine coal on Sundays, a proposal that many workers, especially those in Bible Belt coal fields, consider sacrilegious. Management is also dickering for the right to buy nonunion coal without having to pay royalties to the union's health and retirement funds...
...Hughes Tool Co. in Houston, for example, both union and nonunion employees get quarterly cost of living raises whenever the CPI rises by .3%. The 1.3 million military personnel or their eligible survivors received two increases in 1980: a 6% boost in March and a 7.7% one in September. Says Lieut. General Leroy J. Manor, executive vice president of the Retired Officers Association...
Perhaps, but U.A.W. officials believe that the Japanese are determined to keep their U.S. plants nonunion, fearing that organization might make Honda's management style unworkable. The U.A.W. and Honda are not taking the hat-and-button battle lightly, nor is the NLRB, which is trying to mediate the dispute. The outcome could affect the U.A.W.'s hopes of unionizing a much bigger prize: a 2,000-worker plant to be built in Marysville, where Honda aims to turn out 10,000 Accords monthly...