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Originally published at In These Times. In December 1972, coal miners rocked the American labor movement by electing three reformers as top officers of the Mine Workers (UMWA), a union which at the time boasted 200,000 members and a culture of workplace militancy without peer. In national balloting supervised by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Arnold Miller, Mike Trbovich

Originally published at In These Times. In December 1972, coal miners rocked the American labor movement by electing three reformers as top officers of the Mine Workers (UMWA), a union which at the time boasted 200,000 members and a culture of workplace militancy without peer. In national balloting supervised by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Arnold Miller, Mike Trbovich

In 1972, labor militants ousted corrupt and entrenched leadership at the mine workers' union in an unprecedented win.

Labor militants ousted entrenched leadership at the mine workers’ union in 1972.

Department of Labor's radical new reinterpretation of the 'persuader rule' on hold after nationwide injunction.

Union membership in America is in decline, plunging from 20 percent of workers in 1983 to 11.3 percent (and only 6.6 percent among private-sector workers) in 2012.[1] It is no secret that the Obama Administration is working overtime to reverse this trend.[2]

A review of Joe Burn's book, Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.