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Powers said negotiations between Harvard and the Maintainance Trades Council (MTC) of Boston, which represents the 300 B&G maintenance workers who participated in a three-day walkout that ended March 24, will continue this week in an attempt to "resolve all the issues...
Warmer weather and increased production from non-U.M.W. mines had undercut the strike's effectiveness. Moreover, the financial burden of the walkout was finally grinding down the stubborn miners and their families. "I'm hurtin'," confessed Miner Johnny Elkins, 25, of Hernshaw, W. Va., who voted against the last contract offer. To make ends meet, he had been cutting and selling firewood for $35 a truckload. "Now spring's coming," said Elkins, "and people ain't needing firewood." So he traded in his chain saw for a secondhand trail bike and voted...
What to do? President Carter at budget time talked up a "deceleration" program of urging union and corporate leaders to hold wage-and-price boosts below the average for the past two years. This idea seems dead, killed by the coal strike and the cost of settling the walkout. The Administration is considering a series of other measures. Among them: holding pay raises of 1.4 million federal employees and 2 million military personnel to only 5%, rather than the 6% planned in Carter's fiscal 1979 budget; having Carter urge state and local governments to cut sales and property...
...beleaguered UMWA, pressured by militant young miners in the eastern coalfields and led inefficiently by Arnold Miller, the failure of this strike could mean the end of the union. Perhaps more significantly, the failure of the present walkout could set a dangerous precedent for management-labor relations in other industries for a long time to come. The coal strike is unique in that it is the first industry-wide walk-out in the post-war era in which what have been heretofore regarded as "fringe" benefits--health-and-pension plans, the right to strike at a local level if unsafe...
That earnest prayer for the 165,000 striking coal miners was offered by Monsignor Charles Rice at a labor rally in Pittsburgh last week. His words perfectly reflected the miners' own mood in this long, three-month walkout: religious fervor, intense solidarity, a degree of self-righteousness, and a hint of violent passions as deep and often as murky as the mines themselves...