Trustees Cite Inflation and Strikes Behind Funds' Troubles
West Virginia miners strike costs the United Mine Workers Health and Retirement Fund about 325000 dollars, with 20000 miners off work. Trustees propose cost sharing including 60 40 coinsurance 250 inpatient deductible and 500 annual maximum, effective July 1 1977, as part of a revenue and cash flow crisis traced to 1950 Benefit and Pension Trust reallocations and earlier strikes.
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West Virginia
United Mine Workers of America
UMW
West Virginia Coal Association
Wiles
Barbara Muldauer
Washington
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Benefit Trust
Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association
BCOA
Royal
Pension Trust
Buchanan Delegation Plans Washington Talk Over Benefit Cuts
Five UMW locals in Buchanan County Va will send a delegation to Washington to discuss an alternative to announced cuts in miners health benefits. The group will meet with International President Arnold Miller Vice President-Elect Sam Church and trustees of the Health and Retirement Funds. The changes require miners to pay the first 250 dollars of hospitalization and 40 percent of professional fees, with annual caps of 500 dollars.
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Jim Gilreath
Daily Telegraph
UMW
Buchanan County
Washington, D. C
John L. Lewis
Oakwood
International
Arnold Miller
Sam Church
IEB Member Pleads For Miners To Return To Work In Bishop
Francis Martin of the United Mine Workers urges Bishop and Coalwood members to end the strike as health and retirement benefits face cuts on July 1. He cites potential loss of the 1950 and 1974 funds and notes one half to one third of McDowell County mines idle midweek. Local 1568 leader Joe Clark suggests a $50 per miner assessment to bolster the funds.
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Francis Martin
United Mine Workers International Executive Board
Bishop
Martin
United Mine Workers Health and Retirement Fund
Coalwood
McDowell County
Island Creek Coal Company
Buchanan County
UMW District 28
Buchanan
Island Creek
UMW
Joe Clark
Virginia Pocahontas No. 2
Clark
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Pineville
Five UMW Locals Vote to End Wildcat Strike
West Virginia locals representing about 4000 miners agreed in meetings to end their wildcat strikes. Pickets may block return to mines in Raleigh Wyoming and Fayette counties. The move follows health benefit cutbacks blamed on royalties shortfalls and inflation impacting UMW funds. Coal operators say royalties finance benefits and strike activity drains the funds.
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Associated Press
United Mine Workers
West Virginia
Wildcats
Raleigh
Wyoming
Fayette
UMW Health and Retirement Funds
Dan Fields
The
West Virginia Coal Association
Fields
UMW
J.B. Trout
Kentucky
Trout
Miner Blasts 'Hotheads' For Continuing Strikes
A nameless Pineville miner voices concern over United Mine Workers Health and Retirement Fund cuts and a wildcat strike. He criticizes card abuse, calls for fixed funding, and doubts the strike will help retirees. He notes local workers voted to strike with a wait‑and‑see stance and laments leadership.
Lawmakers Pass Budget in West Virginia Special Session
West Virginia lawmakers end a special session by approving an 841.5 million general revenue budget sending it to the governor. The vote was 22 to 7 in the Senate and 85 to 8 in the House amid protests over non itemized mental health funding and criticisms of giving the governor broad fiscal authority.
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Charleston
W.va
Judith Herndon
Ohio County
Miss Herndon
Senate
John Pat Fanning
House
William J. Oakes
Colin Anderson
Greenbrier Center
Del
Charles Polan
D-Cabell
Sen
Robert Nelson
Governor's Office
Power Commission Foresees Bigger Winter Gas Shortage
The Federal Power Commission warns the 1976 77 winter could bring a 23 percent gap between firm natural gas requirements and available supplies, up from 21 percent last winter, with United Gas Pipe Line Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line and Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co facing the largest curtailments.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
FPC
United Gas Pipe Line Company
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation
Arkansas Louisiana Gas
United Gas Pipe Line
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co
Byrd Seeks Missile Upgrade to Save Princeton Rockwell Plant
Senator Robert Byrd urged President Carter to authorize upgrading the Minuteman II missiles, saying the decision could prevent the Princeton Rockwell International plant from closing and save about 200 West Virginia jobs. The plant, which makes ICBM guidance components, faces phasedown starts July 1 without funding.
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Robert C. Byrd
Carter
Byrd
Princeton
Rockwell International Corp
West Virginia
Rockwell
Anaheim
Calif
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Frank P. Jarrell
Health Se
Wildcat
IEB
Ohio
Meigs No. 8
Bill Wooten
Alabama
Lloyd Baker
John Guzek
Guzek
Power Commission
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