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About 35,000 of the union's members voted against the new settlement President Arnold R. Miller negotiated for them. But, most significantly, more than 40,000 miners didn't vote at all. The vote was the first rank-and-file referendum on a contract in UMW history, fulfilling Miller's 1972 election pledge to open up the hitherto autocratic ratification process...
Worst of all, Miller yielded the ultimate weapon miners have used since his election to fight for tolerable conditions--the wildcat strike. By signing yesterday a contract that does not give miners the right to strike over grievances, Miller has forfeited much of the UMW's bargaining power...
...definite point of origin--November 12, the Tuesday when 120,000 coal-mining members of the United Mine Workers didn't go to work because their old contract had expired without a duly-negotiated successor. And it has a discernible terminus--the day, ten days or so after the UMW's 38-member bargaining council approves a new contract, and a majority of members vote "yes" on the provisions President Arnold B. Miller and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association hammer out--provisions that will govern their working lives for the next three years...
...Gallo boycott has had its initial effects, but Ernie and Julio need a little more friendly persuasion. Chavez will try to raise some money for his union Saturday night at a $5-a-plate dinner being held at Boston College's Roberts Center. Arnold Miller, president of the UMW, and folksinger Phil Ochs will also attend the fundraiser, scheduled...
...first proxy campaign of them all was Campaign GM, which wanted, among other things, safer cars. Recently, activists have been more interested in the safety of companies' employees, and this year a group of staffers from the UMW's Miners for Democracy and various Ralph Nader groups--with occasional advice from outsiders like Martin Peretz, Master of South House--formed Campaign Continental...