Word: pittston
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When I spoke the name of the Pittston Coal Company, which was involved recently in a bitter dispute with the UMWA, George Bragg, a local union member, instinctively spat. Although Bragg confessed that he worried about corruption and abuses of power in the UMWA's administration, there was no question about which side...
...anything, many local residents had an exaggerated respect for Harvard. When I told Bragg about the Harvard activists who picketed Corporation member Robert G. Stone '45 for his involvement with the Pittston Coal Company, he said "We knew about that, and we thank you. We needed that help up there where the power...
...month strike produced an estimated 3,000 broken windshields, dozens of scuffles and nearly $65 million in court-ordered fines against the United Mine Workers union. But last week both sides in the dispute were smiling. After two months of federally mediated talks, the U.M.W. and the Connecticut- based Pittston Co. reached a tentative agreement to end the rancorous walkout that had crippled the company's coalfields in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Some 1,700 miners and 4,000 laid-off and ill union members will vote on the contract as early as next week...
Details of the agreement were kept secret, but it is believed to contain a promise of continued health benefits for Pittston's 130,000 retired workers and a profit-sharing program for current employees. Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole helped satisfy the coal company's health-coverage concerns by appointing a commission to examine the mining industry's difficulty in paying what it says is the increasingly high cost of insurance premiums...
...area around Appalachia, however, having a job often seems more important than having your health. Health care benefits may have been the main sticking point between UMW and Pittston, but many of these dour-faced, bored miners said that their greatest concern was job security...