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...keeping the budget deficit in check over the next 35 years, which requires action now to avert a looming entitlements-spending explosion. That goal is proving elusive. Kerrey and Danforth introduced their own proposal only to reveal wide splits among the 32 committee members. Those members range from Richard Trumka, president of the United Mine Workers, who criticized the Kerrey-Danforth proposal for relying too heavily on cutting benefits and not enough on tightening tax subsidies, to Representative Bill Archer, the Texas Republican who next month will assume the chair of the Ways and Means Committee and is a staunch...
...Friday, Brown chided Clinton for luring employers to low-wage Arkansas, joking that the state's motto is, "Come on over, we have slave labor here." Brown has won the unofficial support of the new president of the cleaned-up Teamsters, Ron Carey, and United Mine Workers president Richard Trumka. Last week powerful California assembly speaker Willie Brown warned Tsongas and Clinton to stay out of the primary there "to avoid a potentially embarrassing loss...
...battles erupted during a weeklong work stoppage that was authorized by the United Mine Workers. Richard Trumka, president of the U.M.W., said he ordered the shutdown in order to "calm the volatile situation." When miners return to work this week, tensions will be high. Trumka has accepted an invitation for the U.M.W. to return to the negotiating table, but Pittston has not yet commented on the proposal...
...Pittston miners worked without a contract for 14 months after the firm demanded cost-cutting changes in work rules and health and pension benefits. Last week United Mine Workers president Richard Trumka called upon other labor unions to support the strike. Speaking at a rally in Charleston, W. Va., attended by leaders of the airline-machinists and communications-workers unions, he said, "It's time that we stood up as a large family and fought back." But so far, it is mostly the miners who are aflame...
...settlement without major strikes. The United Mine Workers last week accepted, 4 to 1, a contract providing a 10.25% raise over 40 months. Though it was the first time since 1964 that the union had not gone out on strike at the end of a contract, U.M.W. President Richard Trumka, a miner turned lawyer, hailed his members as "the shock troops of the American labor movement...