Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the President's sudden announcement came. The union leader was accosted by an aide who yelled: "Come back right away!" Miller hustled down the block to U.M.W. headquarters, conferred with other officials for ten minutes, then announced that he was "delighted." He said he was urging the union rank and file to ratify the contract "so they can get back to work as soon as possible...
...Kentucky, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, some suspicious rank-and-file miners were not so sure. Said Ralph Adams of U.M.W. District 30 in eastern Kentucky: "Before anybody can say anything, I'd say they'd have to wait and see what kind of settlement it is." It will not be until the end of this week that the miners' feelings are really known...
...period of near chaos in the coal dispute began on Feb. 12. That was when the 39-member U.M.W. bargaining council?with rowdy support from rank and file miners, who barged into U.M.W. headquarters?rejected President Miller's initial agreement with the B.C.O.A. The agreement called for a three-year wage increase, from $8.11 an hour to $10.46. But the pact also allowed mine owners to penalize workers who joined in a wildcat strike by requiring offenders to pay $20 a day to the U.M.W. health fund. The owners were adamant on the wildcat provision because 2.5 million man-days...
...Warren Earl Burger hit the wires last November, and irked lawyers haled the chief before the American Bar Association meeting in New Orleans last week on charges of shooting from the lip. He had meant only trial lawyers, it turned out, and his calculation had been based on rank hearsay: Burger had chatted with various trial judges, heard competency estimates ranging from 25% to 75% and simply split the difference. One barrister labeled Burger's remarks "preposterous and flippant," while another cited more scientific studies pegging the incompetency rate at 8% to 30%. After a shouting delegate pleaded...
...building. Charging them with "intimidation and threats," he postponed the meeting and later said testily: "There cannot be any further collective bargaining until this irresponsible action ceases." In his absence, members of the bargaining council took an unofficial vote. The panel of district leaders, reflecting deep dissatisfaction among the rank and file, voted down the contract...