{"id":921760,"date":"2022-12-16T06:43:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=268586"},"modified":"2022-12-16T06:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:43:55","slug":"when-the-united-mine-workers-ousted-their-entrenched-leadership-a-lesson-for-todays-labor-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/16\/when-the-united-mine-workers-ousted-their-entrenched-leadership-a-lesson-for-todays-labor-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"When the United Mine Workers Ousted Their Entrenched Leadership: a Lesson for Today\u2019s Labor Movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December,\u00a01972, coal miners rocked the American labor movement by electing three reformers as top officers of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), a\u00a0union which at the time boasted\u00a0200,000\u00a0members and a\u00a0culture of workplace militancy without\u00a0peer. In national balloting supervised by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Arnold Miller, Mike Trbovich and Harry Patrick ousted  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/16\/when-the-united-mine-workers-ousted-their-entrenched-leadership-a-lesson-for-todays-labor-movements\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/16\/when-the-united-mine-workers-ousted-their-entrenched-leadership-a-lesson-for-todays-labor-movements\/\">When the United Mine Workers Ousted Their Entrenched Leadership: a Lesson for Today&#8217;s Labor Movements<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/16\/when-the-united-mine-workers-ousted-their-entrenched-leadership-a-lesson-for-todays-labor-movements\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December,\u00a01972, coal miners rocked the American labor movement by electing three reformers as top officers of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), a\u00a0union which at the time boasted\u00a0200,000\u00a0members and a\u00a0culture of workplace militancy without\u00a0p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921761,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921760\/revisions\/921761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}