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- <text id=89TT1639>
- <title>
- June 26, 1989: Business Notes:Strikes
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 59
- Business Notes
- STRIKES
- Wildcatting in The Coal Fields
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- <p> After smoldering in the coal fields of Virginia and West
- Virginia for two months, a strike by 1,500 miners against the
- Pittston Coal company flared last week into a fast-spreading
- wildcat walkout. More than 20,000 union miners struck in sympathy
- with the Pittston workers, shutting down mines in six states from
- Pennsylvania to Tennessee.
- </p>
- <p> The Pittston miners worked without a contract for 14 months
- after the firm demanded cost-cutting changes in work rules and
- health and pension benefits. Last week United Mine Workers
- president Richard Trumka called upon other labor unions to support
- the strike. Speaking at a rally in Charleston, W. Va., attended by
- leaders of the airline-machinists and communications-workers
- unions, he said, "It's time that we stood up as a large family and
- fought back." But so far, it is mostly the miners who are aflame.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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