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...talked to Germans about the effects of unification, Jackson was struck by "how far they have come in so short a time -- and how discontented they are about it. A year ago, East Germany was choking on soft-coal fumes and immobilized by the clutter of failure." Now, he notes, the cities are cleaner, people are driving Volkswagens and buying VCRs, and yet "nobody is happy. Physical shabbiness has been replaced by a palpable psychic gloom." In western Germany, meanwhile, Jackson finds "crabbiness and penny pinching. It is as if achieving their dream of unity and unprecedented security were...
...prospects for an end to the 64-day strike suddenly brightened. Exhausted from ten hours of bargaining, Church emerged from a suite in Washington's Capital Hilton Hotel and announced that a new deal had been reached with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which represents 130 leading soft-coal mineowners. Said Church: "I finally made it; we have a contract." Asked if the U.M.W.'s membership would ratify the proposed pact, the union boss gamely ventured, "I think...
...exactly one week it looked as if the nation's $21 billion coal industry would be able to avoid yet another of the lengthy and disruptive strikes that since 1966 have repeatedly marred contract talks with miners. Yet after United Mine Workers President Sam Church Jr. finished hammering out a new three-year contract with mineowners belonging to the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association and submitted the pact for ratification to the union's feisty rank and file, the U.M.W.'s 160,000 soft-coal miners overwhelmingly rejected it. Workers and employers then began digging...
...wildcat strike, a revolt against badly bollixed grievance procedures, spread swiftly. Within 16 days almost all 50,000 soft-coal miners in West Virginia walked off the job. The mine owners went to court, and Federal Judge Kenneth K. Hall slapped the United Mine Workers with a gigantic $500,000 fine, plus $100,000 a day for as long as the strike lasted. Last week, seven working days and $1.2 million later, most of the wildcatters went back to work...
Even so, labor fared fairly well at the hands of the Pay Board. Four important pay cases came before it, and the board gave unions all they wanted in two of them; railroad workers got a 10% raise and soft-coal miners a 15% increase. But the West Coast dock workers were cut down, and the first-year settlement in the ailing aerospace industry was clipped from 12% to 8%. The unionists had their own way in many policy matters, such as lifting the limit on catch-up settlements...