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...major exceptions to the law involve college professors who have tenure, corporation executives whose pension is $27,000 a year or more, and workers covered by labor contracts that provide for earlier forced retirement. The latter will be covered, however, after...
...clouds really began to lower when Ditchley started his own business. His lawyers practically lived with him, filing taxes, dealing with pension plans, dodging safety inspectors and responding (in triplicate) to 12,472 government questionnaires dealing with things like the number of soap spigots in the washrooms and the ratio of three-toed dwarfs he employed relative to their number in the total population. Ditchley was becoming, frankly, a little paranoid on the subject of lawyers. His sister's divorce didn't help...
...question was: Go where? Once again the strike had turned into a cliffhanger, with the nation waiting to learn whether the 165,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America would vote this Friday to ratify the pact, which contains more generous provisions for health care and pension benefits, or send their negotiators back to the bargaining table...
...dangerous precedent for management-labor relations in other industries for a long time to come. The coal strike is unique in that it is the first industry-wide walk-out in the post-war era in which what have been heretofore regarded as "fringe" benefits--health-and-pension plans, the right to strike at a local level if unsafe conditions are involved--figure as prominent issues. To end arbitrarily a strike in which conditions of the workplace and health-and-pension issues occupy the center stage would not only be wrong, and perhaps hamper workers in other industries...
...likely to reject. Miller has already done this, on a contract that contained such regressive measures as the fining of miners who walk-out on wildcat strikes $110 a week, expelling from the union leaders of wildcats, and that the miners themselves take over the industry-financed health-and-pension plans. It was defeated resoundingly...