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...will for the government. After talks between the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Coal Board broke down, the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shot-firers (NACODS), a moderate union of mine supervisors, announced that it would join the strike this week. If a total walkout occurs, the absence of NACODS' safety experts will close the 55 mines still producing coal and raise the real prospect of coal shortages and power cuts this winter. The threat angered the government. "I find it difficult to understand, and I think many members of NACODS will find it difficult...
Perhaps a third of last month's production decline resulted from the one-week strike at General Motors. Though that dispute was settled, a walkout last week by GM's Canadian workers poses a new threat. Because vital parts of several GM cars are made in Canada, the strike could lead to a shutdown of some of the company's U.S. factories...
...their main preoccupation was the bitter coal strike. The miners want to force the National Coal Board to rescind plans that would close 20 uneconomic pits and pension off 20,000 miners. About 50,000 of the country's 180,000 miners are still working despite the union walkout. So far, 817 police have been injured and 7,000 strikers arrested. As he sat with his N.U.M. delegation on the conference floor in Blackpool, Scargill was served with a contempt of court order for his failure to allow a strike vote. He dismissed the citation as an attempt...
...tensions surrounding the coal strike continued, concern was focused on a possible walkout by the 16,000-member mine supervisors union, which is angry over a Coal Board decision to withhold pay of members who honor the mineworkers' strike. If the supervisors, who are essential to mine safety, walk out as well, the industry could be shut down completely. At week's end the supervisors had not yet struck, and were pushing for arbitration to settle the broader dispute. For now, though, to Kinnock's discomfort and the nation's unease, the Coal Board...
...Mine Workers have an even stronger tradition than the Auto-workers of rejecting contracts negotiated by their leaders and hitting the picket line. Five times in the past two decades, workers have gone on strike. In 1977-78 the miners were out for 111 days, and in 1981 the walkout lasted 72 days. But U.M.W. President Trumka this year was determined to break precedent. The coal miner turned lawyer wanted to win better salaries and better job security-without recourse to a strike. When the talks in Washington ended, he claimed to have secured a "totally non-concessionary" agreement...