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...addition, the U.M.W. is pushing for five-days-a-year paid sick leave v. none now. The miners also want a huge increase in the royalty paid by companies to support the union's health and retirement plans, from 800 per ton of coal mined...
...miners feel that their demands are justified because the profits of some coal companies have tripled or even quadrupled so far this year. But a settlement of the size that the U.M.W. wants would probably lift the price of coal above its present record $15 a ton on long-term contracts and put more upward pressure on utility bills, steel prices and the cost of chemicals. Miller, in his first big bargaining test as U.M.W. president, has no margin for moderation. He runs the risk that his fractious rank and file members will thumb down any agreement he signs...
...mines by 20% in the first year, to $7.40; that would put the miners ahead of both the steelworkers (average hourly wage: $7.13) and the auto workers ($5.63). The miners argue that their pay has risen much less than the price of coal, which has jumped from $7.07 a ton in 1971 to $12 or $15 today, with spot prices (for immediate delivery) leaping as high as $120 a ton. They also point to coal companies' profits: at some large firms, earnings have tripled and even quadrupled this year...
...scandal but vows to "get tough with the operators until they scream." Miller's tough approach consists of demands for a 20 per cent wage hike, higher safety standards and a rise in the ante contributed by mine operators to the Union pension fund from $.80 to $2.40 per ton of coal. These benefits would increase the industry's manpower costs by only 50 per cent, while coal prices have doubled in the last four years. Miller is threatening the coal industry with a strike of up to six months to secure his long overdue goals...
...DEMAND for coal began to rise slowly in the late 1960's and increased dramatically after the Persian Gulf oil embargo until it reached the current price level of $30 a ton. The industry's simultaneous rush to expand production has increased the need for miners so that for the first time in over a decade the large coal companies have begun hiring new workers. Miller intends to use the union's resulting leverage over management to obtain such benefits as paid sick leave and a cost of living escalator clause that have become standard in the contracts of many...