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- Title
THE IMPACT OF THE COAL STRIKE OF 1977-1978.
- Authors
Ackermann, John A.
- Abstract
This article focuses on the Great Coal Strike of 1977-78 for the purpose of determining whether, on some objective basis, the strike constituted a national emergency within the meaning of Taft-Hartley Act. Two months before the expiration date of the national contract between the United Mine Workers and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, an analysis of the existing state of labor relations in the bituminous coal industry has been published in the Wall Street Journal on October 6, 1977. As the negotiations remained deadlocked and as the coal-dependent midwestern and Appalachian states labored under the effects of a cold and winter, the first strong pressure for governmental intervention in the coal strike began to be felt.
- Subjects
COLLECTIVE labor agreements; LABOR disputes; STRIKES &; lockouts; PICKETING; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; WAR &; emergency legislation; INTERVENTION (Federal government); COAL industry; PERIODICALS
- Publication
ILR Review, 1979, Vol 32, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
0019-7939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001979397903200202