Word: umw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Working with little or no equipment, the truck mines soon found that they could not pay union wages and still compete with the mechanized mines. While these operators usually signed a UMW contract, the union consented to a "sweetheart agreement," that essentially allowed the operator to pay what he could for wages as long as he paid the 40 cents per ton royalty. But as the market and price for coal dropped, the "sweetheart agreements" turned sour. Deterioration in wages was accepted by the men as long as they retained their welfare benefits. About two years ago, however, the smaller...
...down, there was talk that a movement to "stop" him was forming. Word spread in the press that United Mine Workers' ex-President John L. Lewis would never forgive Kennedy for his role in passing the 1959 Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill (called Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin in the UMW Journal). And West Virginia's freshman U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, a strong Lyndon Johnson man, announced openly: "If you are for Adlai Stevenson, Senator Stuart Symington, Senator Johnson or John Doe, this primary may be your last chance to stop Kennedy. I'm voting for Humphrey...
Contract negotiations between Radcliffe and the Building Service local were delayed until the UMW dropped its attempt to organize the College's maintenance workers, and have not yet been resumed...
...UMW is now seeking to represent 35 kitchen employees, but its petition to the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission has been contested by both Local 254 and the AFL Cooks and Pastry Cooks International...
...Labor Relations Commission took the UMW petition to represent the kitchen workers "under advisement" yesterday morning. The hearing was complicated by the dual "intervention" of the Building Service and Cooks unions. No jurisdictional election can be held until those unions decide which of them will contest the UMW...