Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ore miners test the no-strike agreement
...labor tranquillity. In 1973, the United Steelworkers even formally surrendered the right to strike the basic steel industry over "economic" (wage and benefit) issues; in a widely hailed Experimental Negotiating Agreement (ENA), it pledged to submit pay disputes to binding arbitration. But last week more than 14,000 iron-ore miners shattered steel's separate peace by walking off their jobs in Michigan and Minnesota. It was the first substantial strike in any segment of basic steel in 18 years, and if long continued could be crippling. Mills can get by for some months by feeding stockpiled ore into...
...could the walkout occur in an industry governed by a no-strike pact? ENA permits strikes over local issues, like job assignments, and some of these are involved in the ore walkout. But the big issue is a miners' demand that they collect incentive payments for increased production, as 85,000 workers in steel mills do. To U.S.W. officials in Pittsburgh, who gave their permission for locals at twelve mines to strike, whether any particular mill or mine grants incentive payments is a local issue, unrelated to the general wage level set by national contracts negotiated under...
...future of the no-strike agreement. It cannot be scrapped until 1980, and nobody wants to go back to the days when strikes or threats of strikes led stockpiling steel users to step up their purchases of foreign metal. But, says one steel executive, if interruptions like the ore strike make customers feel insecure, "the whole purpose of ENA is defeated." On the union side, the walkout dramatizes the feeling of some militants that giving up the strike weapon emasculates the union. Ed Sadlowski made that argument vehemently in his losing campaign for U.S.W. president last winter...
Gordon Cornell Lake Oswego, Ore...