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...deep mines has dropped from a high of 15.6 tons daily per man in 1969 to 10.7 tons today. One reason: the Government's tough safety rules, which have cut mining efficiency. The industry has also been plagued in the past two years by hundreds of wildcat strikes. Coal executives say the stoppages prove that United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is not as good a leader as he is a negotiator. In 1974 he won his union (current membership: 135,000) a healthy contract-the average wage is $50 a day before overtime-but he still cannot keep...
...nearly a week, mounds of garbage piled up in Rome, disfiguring historic piazzas and reeking in the narrow streets. A wildcat strike of street cleaners and truck drivers called by right-wing unions showed no sign of letting up. Meanwhile, urgent administration pleas to send the strikers back to work had-as usual-no effect...
...WILDCAT: One of those hot-then-cold areas. When the conditions are right, it's great, but, like many areas in New Hampshire, it tends to harden-or ice-up quickly. Although it gets very cold and windy (right in the shadow of Mt. Washington) the gondola to the top protects skiers. During mid-week Wildcat has some great deals that should not be passed up. For instance, "Two-for Day" (Wednesdays) gives you two tickets for the price of one; and the "Wildcat Escape" plan gives you two-days skiing (Mon./Tues. or Thurs./Fri.) and a night...
...could not afford to halt structural change in the face of international competition, it was obvious that these policies could not continue as the mainstays of the Social Democratic/Labor program. The need for a shift in emphasis became even clearer in 1969 with the beginning of a wave of wildcat strikes that has continued to the present. In the engineering industries nearly half of all the wildcat strikes in the post-war period have occured since 1968. It is perhaps this threat to Sweden's famed peaceful labor relations more than anything else which has radicalized the union leadership...
They had good reason. Only six weeks ago the Third Circuit Court of Appeals handed down an important precedent in the case of two Teamsters locals in Warren, Ohio, and Pittsburgh. The truckers had walked out in a bloody, five-week wildcat strike against Eazor Express Inc. over the dismissal of two employees. Eazor sued the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the locals, all of which had signed a no-strike agreement, and three judges of the Third Circuit unanimously held them all liable, even though they were not involved in starting the strike. The court's message...