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An Alabama coal company has reached a tentative deal with labor to end a strike that idled more than 1,100 workers in Tuscaloosa County. The United Mine Workers of America announced the agreement with Warrior Met Coal Incorporated where members have been on strike at two mines and adjoining facilities since Thursday. APR spoke with the United Mine Workers Union on how rank and file miners were gearing up for the long haul. Union spokesman Phil Smith said strikers would be supported by a fund union members contribute to every pay period.
“That strike fund right now is at a little bit over $100 million, so we will be paying benefits to members on a biweekly basis as long as they are participating in the strike standing on picket line duty, or doing some other sort of duty, said Smith. We’re gonna be setting up food banks; we’re gonna have other operations that we need to be doing for folks.”
When Will Remington Employees Go Back to Work?
Former employees of Remington Arms in Ilion are still waiting to go back to work and right now, they have no idea when they ll be returning.
Some 200 workers were expecting to go back in a staggered return on March 1st and March 8th, but so far, all of those workers have been told the reopening has been delayed. Employees say they received the communication from the new company just prior to their return and there was no word on how long the delay will last. A former employee said workers were told, if you haven t been called yet and told to stay home, you ll be getting a call soon. Some employees did not get the call last week and were turned away at the door on Monday morning when they arrived, according to Syracuse.com.
When Will Remington Employees Go Back to Work?
Former employees of Remington Arms in Ilion are still waiting to go back to work and right now, they have no idea when they ll be returning.
Some 200 workers were expecting to go back in a staggered return on March 1st and March 8th, but so far, all of those workers have been told the reopening has been delayed. Employees say they received the communication from the new company just prior to their return and there was no word on how long the delay will last. A former employee said workers were told, if you haven t been called yet and told to stay home, you ll be getting a call soon. Some employees did not get the call last week and were turned away at the door on Monday morning when they arrived, according to Syracuse.com.
George P. Shultz, Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, dies at 100
He spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East.
By MATTHEW LEE and BARRY SCHWEIDAssociated Press
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In this July 13, 1982, file photo Secretary of State designate George Shultz, right, speaks with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From left are Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill., chairman of the panel, and Sen. Edward Zorinsky, D-Neb. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz, File)
George P. Shultz, who as secretary of State in the 1980s shaped U.S. foreign policy in the closing phase of the Cold War when a dangerous nuclear-armed stalemate gave way to peaceful – if not quite cordial – relations between the superpowers, died Saturday. He was 100.
George P. Shultz, who as secretary of State in the 1980s shaped U.S. foreign policy in the closing phase of the Cold War when a dangerous nuclear-armed stalemate gave way to peaceful if not quite cordial relations between the superpowers, died Saturday. He was 100.
Shultz’s tenure as President Reagan’s chief diplomat, from 1982-89, came after he served in three Cabinet-level posts in the Nixon administration: Treasury secretary, director of Management and Budget, and Labor secretary.
Shultz died at his home on the Stanford campus, said Jeff Marschner, director of media relations at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, on Sunday.