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