Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After nine days of intense negotiations, maneuvers and threats, the B.C.O.A. surrendered more or less completely. What the United Mine Workers wanted, they got: a $2.40-an-hour wage increase over three years, company-guaranteed health care, and the right to honor wildcat pickets without retributions. For the mineowners, there was only the minor sop of a presidential commission to examine improved health, safety and productivity. The agreement "will be ratified overwhelmingly," predicted one confident U.M.W. official...
...near chaos in the coal dispute began on Feb. 12. That was when the 39-member U.M.W. bargaining council?with rowdy support from rank and file miners, who barged into U.M.W. headquarters?rejected President Miller's initial agreement with the B.C.O.A. The agreement called for a three-year wage increase, from $8.11 an hour to $10.46. But the pact also allowed mine owners to penalize workers who joined in a wildcat strike by requiring offenders to pay $20 a day to the U.M.W. health fund. The owners were adamant on the wildcat provision because 2.5 million man-days were lost...
...Harvard trackmen made their odyssey to Ithaca Saturday to wage war against a ten-team field in the Heptagonal Games, but returned a battered and bruised corps after finishing a disappointing sixth in the contest...
...strictly a solo effort, as the rest of the competition dropped out at or below the 14-foot mark, leaving Stiles to wage a one-on-one battle with the bar for nearly an hour. Three near misses at 16-6 prevented him from setting a University record...
...provoked the rebellion against the settlement, which Miller had described as "by far the best agreement negotiated in any major industry in the past two years"? For most dissidents, money was not the rub: the agreement offers miners pay raises, over three years, that would lift their average hourly wage from $7.80 to $10.15. In all, wages and fringes would increase nearly 37%. But the contract also authorizes stiff penalties for absenteeism and, more important, seeks to do away with wildcat strikes. It allows mineowners to discipline wildcatters by requiring such strikers...