Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This small settlement buoyed the union?and also cheered up Labor Secretary Ray Marshall. Communications between the union and the B.C.O.A. had broken down over the previous weekend. Here, thought Marshall and his mediators, was another path to try?using the P. & M. agreement as a pattern for a national contract with the U.M.W. Marshall's aides began meeting separately with the two sides at Labor Department headquarters on Monday afternoon...
Later that day the coal operators turned down the Pittsburg & Midway settlement as a pattern setter. Said one B.C.O.A. leader, in snide reference to P. & M.'s ownership by Big Oil: "No filling-station operation is going to influence these negotiations...
...Wednesday, Mediators Wayne Horovitz and William Hobgood had persuaded the U.M.W. bargaining council to accept the P. & M. settlement as its own pattern setter. The pressure was now seriously coming to bear on the B.C.O.A. The mine owners, who had only reluctantly answered President Carter's initial plea for new negotiations after their deal with Miller collapsed, had feared such a shift all along. They sensed the U.M.W.'s perverse strength: since the rank and file would not necessarily follow their leader, logic dictated that the Government try to make the more organized opposing party bend toward settlement...
...suggesting that the bargaining might be declared to be at an "impasse"?a technical term that would serve to dissolve the national contract talks and pit individual companies against union locals. The Administration also began to encourage executives in other industries to call their coal-company peers, urging settlement. Finally the Governors of afflicted states joined the cam paign, and mine owners complained that none-too-subtle threats were coming from state regulatory officials. Among them: that holdouts might face sudden delays in obtaining permits for strip mining and other operations...
...Another major mistake was to start new settlements after Sadat's visit had opened the chance for peace. The government started what I call ghost settlements in Sinai-13, 15, 20, who knows? Does this help the cause of peace? Is this the time to start new settlements, when for the first time you are talking directly to the President of Egypt? This is the first Israeli government that agreed to limit settlements to military camps. But then to build a military camp where you want a settlement and describe that as a new settlement within an existing military...