Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side is the Pittston Coal Company, a near parody of the worst excesses of corporate irresponsibility. Why should you support the miners against Pittston? It's not just that Pittston is an unabashed union buster. It's not just that it has a record of safety and environmental violations that is exceptional even by the standards of the coal industry. It's not just that Pittston was criminally negligent in the 1972 flash flood that destroyed sixteen West Virginia towns along Buffalo Creek, along with 125 of their residents. It's not just that Pittston got off the hook...
...last contract expired in January, 1988, Pittston stopped paying such medical benefits. For 17 months, the UMWA postponed a strike and continued to work without a contract, while Pittston ceased paying into its benefit plan. This January, governors of three states intervened in the dispute, asking Pittston and the union to negotiate face to face. The miners agreed; Pittston refused...
...should persuade the other Pittston directors to return to the table and negotiate a new contract with the UMWA in good faith. If he is unable to do so, he should resign from the board in protest. His continued presence there would only demonstrate complicity with Pittston's union busting. If Stone is unwilling to resign from Pittston, he does not belong on the Harvard Corporation and should resign...
...Israel to get out of the U.S.S.R. should go to Israel. So there was some Israeli gloating when the U.S. had to confess that it would be unable to accept most of the 300,000 emigres, many of them Jewish, who are expected to be leaving the Soviet Union during the next year. Israel said it would happily take in 100,000 Soviet Jews by 1992. There is a good chance, however, that at least some of the newcomers might ultimately be housed in the occupied West Bank, where U.S. policy strongly opposes Israeli expansion. Secretary of State Baker...
...other volunteers, except a cub-scout pack considered too young to be on the roads, had been turned down for the highway-cleanup project. Rockey Chapman, head of the klavern, admitted he wanted "that sign to advertise my group." He asked the state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union to sue for a reversal of the rejection. The A.C.L.U. was expected to do so on the ground that the KKK was the victim of discrimination based on its "political philosophy...