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...wildcat strike, a revolt against badly bollixed grievance procedures, spread swiftly. Within 16 days almost all 50,000 soft-coal miners in West Virginia walked off the job. The mine owners went to court, and Federal Judge Kenneth K. Hall slapped the United Mine Workers with a gigantic $500,000 fine, plus $100,000 a day for as long as the strike lasted. Last week, seven working days and $1.2 million later, most of the wildcatters went back to work...
...independent monthly trade publication: "Essentially, their idea is 'Who cares what they do as long as I get mine?' " Many employers do not care either; they regard the Teamsters as a good union to deal with because it keeps the members in line and has held wildcat strikes to a minimum...
...time of the revolution, they controlled the Bank Workers Union, the Metallurgical Workers Union, the Shopworkers Union and several other major organizations. Their strength was such that in the months prior to the ouster of the old regime, they were able to call out 100,000 workers in wildcat strikes and send thousands of students into the streets-thus setting the stage for the climactic military coup that ended half a century of right-wing dictatorship. Nonetheless, for all their heroism and staying power, the Communists were able to garner only 12.5% of the vote in last April...
...eliminate the rest by layoffs that are expected to total 20,000 employees out of a work force of 338,000. But the unions will hardly tolerate that. Two weeks ago, for example, Beame dismissed nearly 3,000 of the city's 10,600 sanitation men. After a wildcat strike, they were rehired, at least temporarily (TIME, July 14). Observed the New York Times: "New York is working for its unionized civil service workers, not vice versa. The real power in the city is held by the municipal unions...
Down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue one morning last week, a group of young choirboys marched on their way to a picnic, hopping gaily and singing Nearer, My God, to Thee. The rest of the city was not so blithe. In the third day of a wildcat sanitation workers' strike, mounds of garbage were rising on the sidewalks, rotting in the July heat. At night, especially in the slums of the South Bronx and Harlem, trash fires flickered and fumed in the streets like smudge pots-and, of course, there were not enough firemen to cope. "Fun City? Fear...