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Battleline: The Coal Strike of
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Battle Line: The Coal Strike of ’78 provides a detailed discussion of the 110-day strike that the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) held against the Bituminous Coal Operators Association (BCOA) and the effect this strike had on the American labor movement. The UMWA strike changed labor relations. For the first time since the end of World War II, business was taking every measure possible to break or prevent union organization. Business was choosing to force a strike by labor. Employers were making more demands on unions and asking more of their workers. And, in the case of the coal strike of 1978, the BCOA was interested in breaking the UMWA. BCOA thought it would be an effortless attempt due to the weak and divided appear
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