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Stone, who has served on Harvard's primary governing body since 1975, is also a member of the board of directors of the Pittston Company, which has recently cut back health care and other benefits for its retired and disabled employees and their widows...
...United Mine Workers of America [UMWA] has been on strike against Pittston since April 5, and was responsible for initiating yesterday's protest at Harvard...
...Sunday (most are serious churchgoers; many are preachers). They earned more than $600 a week, had free medical benefits, seemed content with their simple lives in the savage hills and mountains of old Appalachia. For 14 months they worked without a contract while negotiating a new pact with the Pittston Coal Group, which operates some 40 mines in the region...
...biggest exporter of metallurgical coal in the U.S., Pittston has seen the world price of its product halved (to $30 a ton) in the past seven years. To trim costs, Pittston offered its employees a $1-an-hour raise in exchange for reduced health benefits -- from 100% coverage to 80% with a deductible -- and a seven-day-a-week "flex time" work schedule. Losing their precious Sundays as well as part of their health plan was too much for the miners. On April 5 they walked...
...Pittston cut off the miners' health benefits and hired "replacement workers," the new euphemism for scabs. The union is providing a limited medical plan and giving the strikers $200 a week in subsistence pay. Pittston says the men must face the facts of today's coal market; the miners argue that Pittston is "treacherously" trying to break the union...