{"id":923847,"date":"2022-12-17T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=13067804585b442d5a5f3d6c9991d1aa"},"modified":"2022-12-17T18:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T18:51:04","slug":"what-organizers-can-learn-from-a-rank-and-file-coal-miners-victory-50-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/17\/what-organizers-can-learn-from-a-rank-and-file-coal-miners-victory-50-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"What Organizers Can Learn From a Rank-and-File Coal Miners\u2019 Victory 50 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1972, coal miners rocked the American labor movement by electing three reformers as top officers of the United Mine Workers of America (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 and Harry Patrick ousted an old guard slate...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/what-organizers-can-learn-from-a-rank-and-file-coal-miners-victory-50-years-ago\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/what-organizers-can-learn-from-a-rank-and-file-coal-miners-victory-50-years-ago\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1972, labor militants ousted corrupt and entrenched leadership at the mine workers&#8217; union in an unprecedented win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16943,46728,11260,4721,33914,39289,19740],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923847"}],"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=923847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923848,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923847\/revisions\/923848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}