Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to strike whenever a majority of its members vote for a walkout. For the operators, this would defeat the whole purpose of a contract. The result might be a condition of anarchy, as compared with the disarray that already prevails in the mines. All this year, one wildcat strike after another has been called by rebellious locals over issues that ranged all the way down to who is responsible for carrying into the mines the pots that serve as toilets...
...dead wrong. The company treats us well, and we shouldn't be penalized when some other company has trouble. We lose good money on somebody else's say-so." A younger miner puts it more bluntly: "If the company gave us protection against wildcat strikes, I'd be willing to cross the picket line. There wouldn't be all this wildcat crap if John L. Lewis [the thunderous U.M.W. leader from 1920 to 1960] were still around. The union has lost control...
...seem as if the workers were going to suffer more than the companies. Health benefits were cut off because employers are no longer contributing to the insurance fund for the 901,000 miners, retirees and dependents. Contributions to the fund, which had already been depleted by all the wildcat strikes, are based on production and hours worked. Many miners and their families have stopped going to a doctor because they cannot afford...
...tally at 12:57 of the final period was the deciding goal. Jack Hughes sent freshman Tommy Murray off to the races at his own blue line, and Murray sent it ahead on the left to Benson, who batted the rolling puck up and over the right shoulder of Wildcat goalie Greg Moffett...
With UNH on the power play defenseman Jim Liston left two Wildcat forwards for dead, then pushed the puck ahead for Gene Purdy. Purdy sent Murray in at the blue line who, outskating everybody, slid a backhand under the stacked pads of Moffett...